Jo Passed - Their Prime (New CD)

The nicest thing anyone has ever said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band”s debut album sounds like “”f***ed-up Beatles.”” Titled Their Prime, the LP does sound like f***ed-up Beatles. It sounds like, somewhere across an ”80s universe, Lennon and McCartney discovered Can and Neu!, and maybe a little Sonic Youth and XTC along the way. Opening with “”Left,”” it demonstrates that timeless knack for dreamy melodies – chord progressions that sound like they were created in a land far far away. Lyrically, however, it”s imbued with a philosophical longing for answers to questions that have resurfaced for the first time since the explosion of counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

• Left

• MDM

• Glass

• Undemo

• Facetook

• Repair

• R. Ip

• Millennial Trash Blues

• You, Prime

• Sold

• Another Nowhere

• Places Please