Jenna and the Janes
Earth Dog Year


4.2
excellent

Review

by jesper STAFF
April 17th, 2022 | 27 replies


Release Date: 2022 | Tracklist

Review Summary: small stories / big heart

Earth Dog Year transforms brief stories from an ordinary life into extraordinary folk songs that feel as intimate as they are universal. Its country-tinged melodies are crisp yet rarely overbearing, accentuated by pristine vocal harmonies that continuously and impressively match the atmosphere. Moreover, the entirety of Jenna and The Janes seem to be locked into this atmosphere: when stories take place in autumn, guitars lightly twinkle with enough breathing room to feel any passing breeze. When vocalist Jenna Smith effortlessly finds beauty in mundane, everyday acts, each instrument lingers long enough to make one reconsider the very fabric of such familiar banalities. While there are plenty of catchy moment to keep you coming back, the record does not sacrifice any depth for this sense of memorability. Every element connects to every sentiment: from the subtle intensities during the album’s more escapist tendencies to the dynamically ethereal qualities of the many lingering rhythms. Earth Dog Year manages to keep unfolding with each listen, while remaining firmly rooted in anxieties, house parties, news reports, and road trips.




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JesperL
Staff Reviewer
April 17th 2022


5469 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

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dmathias52
Staff Reviewer
April 17th 2022


1799 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Well you have my attention

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
April 17th 2022


5469 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

i hope the album can keep it :]

Atari
Staff Reviewer
April 18th 2022


27973 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yay!



nice seeing your score bumps for this.. lovely little review. cheers again for brining this one to my attention

dmathias52
Staff Reviewer
April 18th 2022


1799 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

This is wonderful. It reminds me so much of the an EP from The Altogether that was released in 2018 called When We Were Young, one of my all time favorite EPs. The woman singer left the band after that EP and I’ve been hoping to find something similar since. This is perfectly filling that void. Thank you for the review!

Gotta give a couple more spins before giving the rating, but it will def be high

gryndstone
April 18th 2022


2740 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

its ok

dmathias52
Staff Reviewer
April 18th 2022


1799 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Yeah I love this. So simple but so good. Wouldn’t change a thing about it

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
April 18th 2022


5899 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Beautiful review, will check this shortly!

Pikazilla
April 19th 2022


29776 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

damn

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
April 19th 2022


5469 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

hell yeah guys! (except for pika smh)

love that you're loving this dmath, like atari said this one really grew on me in the space of like two weeks

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
April 19th 2022


5899 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Closer here is awesome, everything is pretty good though

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
April 19th 2022


10207 Comments


I have subscribed to your tiktok

"There’s plenty of catchy moments on the record to keep you coming back, with a surprising amount of depth to be found in each corner of the record" this line feels a little off with the repetition of 'record', and the first half the the sentence doesn't feel connected to the second half if you get me? Stupidly cute lil neat rev here otherwise, my kind of length

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
April 19th 2022


5469 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

ahh thank you aslep! changed/cleaned that sentence a lil

sunny, keep me updated if that 3.7 turns into a 4.2 cuz that was my trajectory haha

ZippaThaRippa
April 20th 2022


10671 Comments


This is pretty lackluster unfortunately

dedex
Staff Reviewer
April 20th 2022


12788 Comments

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

this is nice and cute, but not as nice and cute as the rev uwu

dmathias52
Staff Reviewer
April 21st 2022


1799 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Ok may have been overly excited about this cause it does slow down a teeny bit in the middle section, but still hopping on that 4.2 train. Those harmonies popping in in the opening track get me every time

Megabomberman
April 21st 2022


169 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Review Rating: 5.0

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
April 21st 2022


5469 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

dwedex : 3

4.2 is the correctestest rating dmath haha. only song that hasn't fully clicked for me is 'take it home'

Atari
Staff Reviewer
April 21st 2022


27973 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

surprised nobody else here besides Sunny has singled out the phenomenal closer

SublimeSound
April 21st 2022


107 Comments


This is good stuff - glad to have heard about it here.



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