Hermione Hoby 

Jagwar Ma: Howlin – review

Sydney duo Jagwar Ma aim to kickstart a Madchester revival with mixed results, writes Hermione Hoby
  
  


Jagwar Ma are two young guys from Sydney but their sound echoes the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s. It's not an obvious era for revivalism: 30 years on, retrospection suggests that the acid-fuelled experience of Manchester's nightlife might have been a better thing than the acid-fuelled music playing in its clubs. These grooves are floppy-limbed, loosely propelled by basslines that sound like ones Ian Brown left behind under a pub table. The best track here, Four, is also Jagwar Ma's least baggy, driven along by neat, dance-punk rhythms.

 

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