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On Good Terms With Everyone You Know

by Jacky Boy

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1.
New Friend 01:49
2.
Hung 02:50
You got me wrong And it’s not what you want You got me pegged You got me figured out And it’s not what I want I had you once I never had you once Cus I had to talk You got me hung You got me hung on it But where is it from? This is about the way I feel When we’re touching When you’re tucked into me When we’re watching a movie Or in your bed Our hands wandering And we’re kissing I was right on the edge When I stopped your hand from moving Maybe I should have come
3.
Hear You 04:16
When it gets lonely And you catch a low feeling And you toss to make your bed creak In an empty house Where no one’s listening You had a season Living in a dream With the first person who fell As hard as you did I still hear you singing 50 miles away On the local radio station In the town you left me in It’s okay it didn’t work It’s okay that we moved on And I’m glad that we’re still friends It’s just weird when it creeps back up again
4.
Play It Cool 02:52
5.
Closer 02:19 video
Put it in my head To be that kind of person in your life Be around to feel me out And I’ll be living either way Filling in the blanks inside my head To make my life easier When you feel it out Just let me know And I will meet you there Following the signs you gave me To your place How do we know? Feel around and I’ll go down And fill my mouth with jewelry Pull the pins out of your dreads When you’re getting into it My fingertips move with your hips And curl to make you louder I got, I got, I got closer You got, you got, you got closer I came, I came, I came closer You came, you came, you came closer I got. You got.
6.
Down 04:57
Happy with or without what you want Think about the things you have And let them be enough Then pretend your life is in your hands Tell yourself you’d ever be content with it Down again At least it only took so long to know I’m wrong again Happy with or without someone else Convince yourself you’re better off And you don’t need the help Meanwhile you’re obsessed with the signs You think that you’ve been given Until you realize Down again At least it only took so long to know I’m wrong again So I’m out again And it won’t be very long Before I’m down and out again I wish that when I want somebody I didn’t want anyone else But I know I’d go for anybody Who didn’t want the same for themselves
7.
Impossible 03:24
You are impossible To ever want me And I am insatiable For ever trying Doesn’t matter too much Cus I’m probably just sitting here crushin’ Cus I am incapable of ever stopping I’ll see you at the show Maybe we’ll start talking Feel like it’s going well Maybe find some deeper meaning But every chance that I get Makes me rush to forget How easy it is to lose it Assuming I ever had something To begin with I don’t need you As good as I am at convincing myself You won’t save me As much as I told myself it would help It took a while To realize I don’t have much to give You are above me I’m just coming to terms I’m not trying to feel sorry for myself
8.
Lease Year 02:50
Only one stale year to go The lease forces us back in And we keep the Atlas pictures on the fridge What if I met you around here? You wouldn't have had to move so far And I wouldn't feel like I had to give you my heart Good to know We got flow We got to let it out I'm telling you It's nothing new We got to let it out Renew this life for one more year Are we in love or is it just me? Is the pressure all that's keeping you here? I see you're going out again Leave me with the dog and tv Find some time from me And make a new friend
9.
Easy 03:37
I hope I see you on my way home I think it’d be better to ask you in person Than on your phone And I hope you have a good way To let me off Even though I think that my hopes Might just be low enough Make it easy on me Tell me you’ve got someone else Make it easy on me Tell me you’re on your way out Put yourself out of my mind I hope I miss you at the next show I think it’d be better for me not to hear What I already know I have decided to never say how I feel It make me think I can keep some sort of pride If it never shows
10.
Leaving 05:47
We made it work on a Friday out Sipping away all the time in the world It’s hard to believe we were anywhere We’ve been around We’ve been hangin’ with the same crowd It took the whole town Before it was you I was missing out I could still taste your spit on my lips The air somehow carried your essence I have dreams that don’t end like this I’m not ready To let it leave me
11.
The Nerve 04:45
I found the bare minimum of effort to put into maintaining A sense of purpose in the midst of Fading youth and concerned calls from my mother This Valentine's Wasn't my most remarkable I spent 12 hours Cursing this computer game Because I needed a distraction From doing nothing It's alright Because I wrote a song about it Which voids the urgency To make the changes in my life I've been meaning to make Since I learned to Disappoint myself I found my place In the universe Then stopped giving life any effort Handed a better life Than I could deserve But I'll still complain Cuz I got the nerve

about

It's hard not to think of Jacky Boy as a quintessentially "midwestern" band. The core members, Steve Marino, Mark Edlin, and Stone Irr, all live smack in the middle of the heartland: Bloomington, Indiana. Their debut album is called 'On Good Terms With Everyone You Know'. They harmonize like choir boys on the first track, "New Friend". They know exactly who they are: nice guys, and great musicians, who've crafted a massive and intimate rock record.

On first listen, what stands out most are Steve Marino's lyrics. There's pathos and balance; he never drifts too far toward the wild desperation of emo or the cocksure selfishness of pop rock. Steve's words sit in that uncomfortable middle space, where the speaker knows every fucked-up situation is neither the end of the world nor entirely someone else's fault.

I mean, check this out:

"It’s okay it didn’t work / It’s okay that we moved on / And I’m glad that we’re still friends / It’s just weird when it creeps back up again" ("Hear You").

That's what a breakup really feels like. It's not fire and desperation forever, it can't be - not for real people. At some point you're left picking up the pieces, some good, some bad, and trying your best to move on. There aren't many songwriters deft enough to capture that truth. Marino does it over and over again.

We shouldn't forget drummer Mark Edlin and bassist Stone Irr though; they've crafted a driving rhythm section that launches every single song, except the first and last, headlong into the verse. There's no build-up, no need for a calculated intro. Why wait?

Listen to the punchy drums on "Lease Year" and hear how Edlin injects the song with complex patterns that fit seamlessly. His double-triplet hi-hat on the chorus is absolute perfection. Or consider the tonally-perfect, reverb-laden stick rhythm on the first verse of "Hear You", matching the lyrics: "When it gets lonely / And you catch a low feeling." Edlin's sparse beat perfectly mirrors that desolation.

No song better exemplifies Jacky Boy's immediacy and intimacy than "Down". In less than a second, with a slick guitar slide, they launch into a sludgy churn, driven by Stone Irr's bass. Then, half a minute later, over an almost heavy-metal instrumental, Irr provides etherial cooing. Only moments after, Stone harmonizes through the chorus as he and Marino sing: "Down again / At least it only took so long to know / I’m wrong again." The chorus is gigantic.

In the end, those widescreen moments are what stick with you. Over the course of 11 songs, Jacky Boy present an album that simply doesn't shy away; they chase the emotion, the sound, and the songwriting wherever it might lead. As a result, the album feels deeply familiar, deeply personal, and yet still unique.

Do yourself a favor and give it a listen.

credits

released October 27, 2017

Jacky Boy is:

Mark Edlin - Drums/Percussion/Vocals
Stone Irr - Bass/Vocals
Steve Marino - Guitar/Vocals

With Kurt Friedrich on keys and piano

Recorded by Kyle Houpt
Mixed and mastered by Mike Bridavsky

Tracked, mixed, and mastered at Russian Recording in Bloomington, IN in fall/winter 2016

Cover photo by Anna Powell Teeter
Layout by Aaron Denton

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