Them Jones: Instructions For Re-Entry

Philadelphia neo-psych band Them Jones may try to be in full-on slow moving ambient mood on their new album Instructions For Re-Entry, but blues is a genre that refuses to be boxed in altogether, so it makes an Hollywood entrance about half way the record during Almost Home. Covering all the bases of vintage psychedelic pop - songs about space travel, lots of echo and reverb and dreamy vocals - it sits comfortably next to Nirvana (not the Seattle trio), early Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree.

Expanding their musical palette with violins and English horn enabled the core band to hold back and go for a pastoral approach that invokes a glorious Spring day in the countryside. They reach for the heavens, but are equally enamoured by the wonders of Earth.

Them Jones:
Frank Tobin: rhythm guitar, vocals
Dan Leyden: drums
Danny Webster: bass
Meghan Woodard: English horn (track 3) and harmony vocals (tracks 2,9)
Lauren Kimball: vocals (tracks 2,4,5,7,8,9 and 11)
Mike Moore: vocals (tracks 2,4)
Jake Martin: harmony vocals (track 10)
Andrew Jansen: guitar (track 6)
Joel Wilson and Mike Romanyshyn: violins (track 5)

Instructions For Re-Entry is a self-released album. Buy it from their website.

Tracks:

1. Holding You Don't Make You Mine
2. Human
3. Feel Right
4. In the Drop
5. A Distant Sun
6. Almost Home
7. The Worm at the Core
8. Sundowning
9. Dark Horse
10. Extras in Mine
11. Black Rose

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