The alternative rock and country band Jinx Machine hail from the eastern Kentucky town called Irvine and sound as though they have been listening to My Morning Jacket since birth. The three-piece outfit whose musical stylings we’ve already established consists of twin brothers Trenton and Trevor Jenkins on guitar and bass respectively and drummer Josh Anglin. Their songs on This Time Last Year their first record together under this moniker (the band had previously represented itself as the Jenkins Brothers) are branded by melancholy folk and some sort of rock infused happy go lucky tunes that act as foils.
The opening track, “Brown Cardigan” is a slow tempo acoustic based rock song that arches and stretches, builds up slightly from its humble beginnings. It’s a simplistic little piece of beauty that encapsulates a moment in time and then moves on. It doesn’t call attention to itself nor does it go unnoticed. It just simply is, and that is enough. This rolls into “Passerby” which sounds right off the cutting room floor of Jim James, and though I’m not a fan of his in particular I can appreciate now after hearing “Passerby” the elements of country tinged rock assorted in just such a way. Even when the band gets a bit hokey, like on “Gunslinger From Missouri” a song that despite its downfalls characteristically still achieves beauty instrumentally and its not always easy to partly admire a song. “WYSYLMIDMAT” is an acronymically despondent song that just didn’t seem to fit into the rest of the catalogue. But then comes a jewel here on the lo-fi “All The Time” a song which is as good as any I’ve heard not only in this genre but in a while. To put it plainly This Time Last Year seems like a record that is finally starting to show off all the hard work and time and patience that must be put into the craft of songwriting.
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