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THE JET CITY FIX - "PLAY TO KILL" - INFECT RECORDS

Seattle-based "The Jet City Fix" are like a lion ready to pounce on it's prey. I might be way off base here, but these guys seem to be a diehard Rock N' Roll band that's just sitting back and waiting for their time to strike. Again, this may be completely coincidence, but their first single "Dumb Luck" sounds like a lot of the Pop-Punk tunes you hear on Top 40 radio. In fact the first three cuts are a bit deceiving as you get to cut four, "The Life" things change... they transform to something more like Buck Cherry. Then, on cut five, you REALLY start to get it. They do a cover of Englands The Wildhearts "Sick Of Drugs" and old-school rockers like myself start to drool. The next cut "Jet City's Rockin'" seems to confirm your hopes that these guys are the real deal. They almost sound like they're apologizing for Seattle's music past. "Jet City's rockin', and it's about time..." they profess as they tear you a new one with some bad-ass guitar licks and an intensity that put's the modern rock bands to shame.

If you subtract the frist three songs from this album, which aren't bad by the way, you have one of the best damn Rock albums heard in years. "It Doesn't Matter" has some hooks that'll stick with you like an AC/DC song. Actually, the rest of the album contains some songs that are custom-made to be cranked up as loud as hell, preferably driving around with the top down and under the influence of some sort of alcoholic beverages. "The Fix" is another anthem for the bands belief in Rock N' Roll. Ironically, the CD ends with a song called "Fire It Up", which just leaves you wanting more.

These guys are ready to take flight and kick the music world in the ass. They are the future on Rock N' Roll, it's bands like this that give us all hope for the future of Rock. Are they being a bit deceptive with their first release, yeah, probably, and more power to them. I remember Pearl Jam's first album wasn't so bad, but we soon figured out they were more interested in politics than rockin' out. These guys aren't stupid, they can give the labels what they want, then when the time is right, unleash the rock n' roll monster within.