Today, Jade Hairpins the duo of Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk (both of Canadian punk band Fucked Up)— share the accompanying video for their new single ‘Better Here Than In Love’, watch it below. It documents their recent tour in Turkey, Armenia, and the Republic of Georgia.
A swaying and lilting effort woven with tremulous lapping guitar licks, and entwined boy /girl vocals that waltz romantically and wistfully, with more than a touch of 80s elegance. It’s taken from their new album Get Me the Good Stuff out today (13th September) on Merge Records, plus they have UK live dates with Chubby and the Gang coming up.
On Get Me the Good Stuff, Jade Hairpins waste no time fulfilling their second album’s titular demand. From its harmony-drenched opening note to its baroque-anthemic conclusion, Get Me the Good Stuff is positively loaded with musical ideas, an absurdist buffet of sound and aesthetic that comes with one hell of a floorshow as the Hairpins stack those ideas higher and higher, almost daring them to crash to the floor. Instead, those elements—punksploitation, power pop, baggy, funk, and Italo disco are just some touchstones—are not only held aloft, they defy gravity and convention.
These pyrotechnics are, in true Jade Hairpins fashion, something of a sleight of hand. While the music swaggers and gallops, Get Me the Good Stuff grapples with anxiety and self-doubt, obfuscating pain and alienation with sparkling wit and some straight-up ravers.
Hairpins started as a by-product of the universe of Fucked Up’s Dose Your Dreams, but eventually transformed into its own thing, creating a live band based in London.
Live:
18th October – London – Rough Trade West (acoustic duo)
3rd December – London – Moth Club*
5th December – Manchester, UK – YES (Pink Room)*
6th December – Glasgow – McChuills*
*supporting Chubby & The Gang
