It’s interesting because most of the time, the music featured on music blogs (including your humble ox-cart of servitude) is made by up-and-coming, fresh-out-of-the-gate, wet-behind-the-ears and other hyphenation-heavy-idioms bands. It’s not often you come across a situation quite like that one of The Pedaljets, a band whose heyday was back in the mid-to-late 1980’s, having spawned albums which generated national critical acclaim and had opened for acts like Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, Meat Puppets and pre-UFO era Flaming Lips.

Yet they broke up, for reasons as vast and nebulous as band break-up reasons can be, despite being blessed with MTV face time with their video for Place In The Race. The Kansas-based members all went on to various projects, only to re-congregate practically twenty years later to re-master their final, eponymous album for a re-release on Oxblood Records (the savages!) this year, in a format which, according to the press, corresponds to the record they had set out to make years ago. Something about setting their karma straight, I believe, would be their principle motivation.

The original hastily produced album contained Place In The Race, now refitted to prance around as a jangling Replacements-esque burner, light and springy, full of those melodious choruses and punkish undercurrents, guitars crunching in chords with a subtle southern rock tinge. It refuses to sound outdated, yet successfully maintains a genuine throb of early 1990’s powerpop.

Call it timing, call it fate, but call it “good.”

MP3: The Pedaljets - Place In The Race

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