Stephen Stivs - JOTT EP

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I present to you all the first release from a veteran of the Anti-Raunchwagon line-up: the "JOTT EP" by Stephen Stivs (i.e. Jayson Homyak of The Impetuous Impregnables and The Indiana Beach Boys).

If this album art were a baseball player up at bat, he or she would be out.

1. Strike one: ghetto photoshop job.
2. Strike two: a fat kid with a mullet (only skinny, hetero mullets allowed).
3. Strike three: Placing two scorpios in the same two-dimensional artwork always brings folly to its receivers.

 So far I have had swamp ass for the last two days since I received the master files from Stephen. Nonetheless, here at Anti-Raunchwagon Records we allow for the artist to have creative control of their music from conception to release.

The distinguishing factors which the artist chose for this release are first and foremost the title "JOTT EP" being transcribed in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, which is a rare commodity nowadays. Secondly, the avant-garde way of naming tracks by numbers that don't quite coincide with the track number. Furthermore, in stark contrast to the album title, the track titles contain NO CAPITAL LETTERS. Now talk about postmodern...this shit is postfuture.

Jayson Homyak does a great job of capturing the desolation and intense sadness found between minor chords in the winter sunlight. Somehow between the laptop drums and the almost baroque guitar riffs, he finds a place to do some things that have never been done before, and some things better than others have done them. For example, the sixth track on the EP called "five" contains alien doo-wop vocals over a droning organ glitch ballad. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Urethra Franklin! All in all, its a fantastic debut album from a fantastic guy. Eat it up you ad-campaign victimzzzzz.