Jawbox (album)
Jawbox is the fourth and most recent album by American post-hardcore band Jawbox. The album was released by TAG Recordings, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. In the months following the album's release, the band was dropped from TAG and thus from Atlantic.
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| Released | July 2, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | December 1995–March 1996 | |||
| Studio | Water Studios (Hoboken, New Jersey) | |||
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| Length | 47:46 | |||
| Label | Atlantic/TAG (1996) Desoto (re-release) | |||
| Producer | John Agnello and Jawbox | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| MusicHound Rock | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 7.6/10 |
| Punknews.org | |
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The album is much more commercial than its predecessor, For Your Own Special Sweetheart. Music videos were produced for the tracks "Mirrorful" and Tori Amos cover "Cornflake Girl," with the latter being a hidden track. The cover became a surprise (albeit minor) hit in the alternative and college radio scene, thus the video was filmed. The cover was omitted from the album's 2015 LP reissue. Along with those two tracks, promotional singles were also created for "Absenter" and "His Only Trade."
It was Jawbox's final studio album before disbanding in 1997.