Wow. Jayler's first single, Acid Rain, live in 2024, official video 2022 + gig review from a veteran journalist calling

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them "the best new band I have ever seen."

(Cross-post from Music Appreciation.)

I should have had this in my first post about them, at https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034137383 . Didn't because I'd listened to just part of the official music video, the evening when I first ran across their music, when I was feeling so low nothing sounded good to me. When I noticed their videos again, I ignored that first song...till tonight, when I listened to a live performance I loved.

I'll link to the rave review of one of their live shows below these videos.


Live in Nottingham, May 2, 2024:

Official music video, uploaded to YouTube July 1, 2022:

Gig review of their show in London, May 10, 2024 (8 days after the gig shown in the first video above), from Hot Metal Mag, written by long-time journalist and reviewer Steve Mascord (see his bio at https://books.google.com/books/about/Touchstones.html?id=C-c2swEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description ).

https://hotmetalmag.com/gig-review-jayler-at-camden-underworld-london/

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What is Jayler? I’ll sum it up in five words: Greta Van Fleet but better. If allowed six, I’d add “much”.

It’s shocking to see how young they are when they come on stage. Three 18-year-olds and a 19-year-old. How we have become conditioned to greying men who brandish their egos as eagerly as they hide their paunches.

The songs, such as “Acid Rain”, “No Woman”, “When You Go” and “Love Maker”, are Zeppelinesque in the extreme. But they are much simpler, catchier and more direct than GVF (I am tempted to say ‘or even Zep’ … but I won’t) and delivered with an overwhelming crispness that just zaps you.

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And then there’s the reaction from a crowd of middle aged men and Kira Mac fans who’ve arrived early. It is spontaneous, shocked and overwhelming. At first there even seems to be a bit of bewilderment in the way the applause speeds up and evolves into cheering and hooting. Are these kids REALLY doing this? Filling the air around us with filthy guitar licks and devil-rousing vocal lines that have our body hair standing to attention?

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And his review ends with him saying, "Jayler are the best new band I have ever seen."

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1. Kicking. And please see the earlier thread I linked to as well. We have a lot of classic rock fans here, and

this young band is playing new music that most of us would say sounds like classic rock.

Rock music IS classic, though. As classic as blues, or jazz, or any other genre. It's great to see young rock musicians this talented.