Jawbox - The Revisionist EP 12"

Jawbox - The Revisionist EP 12" The road to the 2019 Jawbox reunion tour was a long one, with more than a year of rehearsal and re-learning of songs that J. Robbins, Kim Coletta, Zach Barocas, and Bill Barbot hadn’t played together in over two decades.  Along with re-learning came some reimagining as well, with some parts rewritten and rearranged, sections of songsstretched out, new dynamics, and some new approaches. One song that got a thorough re-work was "Grip," the (almost) title track of the band’s first album, Grippe. Zach, in particular, dug into the song as if it was brand new, and the song’s bridge took on a much more muscular character, driven by the toms. Everyone in the band fell in love with the new arrangement, and maybe this was the first glimmer that, as well as recapturing its essence from the 90s, the band might have some new tricks up its sleeve. By the end of the 2019 run, Jawbox felt it had some momentum to keep going forward and see what the future might hold. Un