Jawbox (album)

Jawbox
Studio album by
Jawbox
ReleasedJuly 2, 1996
RecordedDecember 1995–March 1996
StudioWater Studios (Hoboken, New Jersey)
Genre
Length47:46
LabelAtlantic/TAG (1996)[5]
Desoto (re-release)
ProducerJohn Agnello and Jawbox[6]
Jawbox chronology
For Your Own Special Sweetheart
(1994) 		Jawbox
(1996) 		The Revisionist
(2022)
Singles from Jawbox
  1. "Absenter"/"Chinese Fork Tie"
    Released: 1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[8]
Entertainment WeeklyB[3]
MusicHound Rock[9]
NME7/10[10]
Pitchfork7.6/10[2]
Punknews.org[1]
Tiny Mix Tapes[4]

Jawbox is the fourth and most recent album by American post-hardcore band Jawbox.[11] The album was released by TAG Recordings, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. In the months following the album's release, the band was dropped from TAG and thus from Atlantic.

The album is much more commercial than its predecessor, For Your Own Special Sweetheart. Music videos were produced for the tracks "Mirrorful" and Tori Amos cover "Cornflake Girl", with the latter being a hidden track. The cover became a surprise (albeit minor) hit in the alternative and college radio scene, thus the video was filmed. The cover was omitted from the album's 2015 LP reissue. Along with those two tracks, promotional singles were also created for "Absenter" and "His Only Trade".

It was Jawbox's final studio album before disbanding in 1997.[6][12]

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  3. ^ a b Hajari, Nisid (July 26, 1996). "Jawbox". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TMT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "J. Robbins walks us through Jawbox's 1996 swan song". Music.
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Jawbox - Jawbox". AllMusic.
  8. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. pp. 587–588.
  9. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 596.
  10. ^ Goldsmith, Mike (July 29, 1996). "Jawbox - jawbox". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  11. ^ "Jawbox Announces Reunion Tour After A Decade Away". NPR.org.
  12. ^ Pettigrew, Jason (February 25, 2019). "Post-hardcore heroes Jawbox: "We've all been through enough things."". Alternative Press.