King of Jeans. The title of Pissed Jeans’ third album and second for Sub Pop conjures their essence perfectly—-masters of the mundane, beasts of the banal, high priests of the humdrum. These four, white, male high school graduates hardly look further than their own appendages for artistic inspiration, content to execute their own brand of brash and heavy punk music in the Joe Carducci-approved standard rock formation of guitar, bass, drums and vocals. From simple minds and simple fabrics comes this King of Jeans, perhaps also a slight nod to the variety of Pissed Jeans-inspired groups that have crawled up since 2007’s Hope for Men. After all, there can be only one.

If 2005’s Shallow was Pissed Jeans coping with moving out of their parents’ homes, and 2007’s Hope for Men their initial reaction to the mechanical lifestyle of a wage-earner, King of Jeans is their formal and uneasy acceptance of adulthood. The age gap between the members of Pissed Jeans and high school girls is no longer something to be overlooked—-they hoped for men, and sometimes you get what you wish for. Backs get sore easier and stay sore longer, record collections have reached their breaking point or have been sold entirely, and procreating is becoming a more pressing issue. What are you supposed to do when you are unable to break out of the standard, middle-class American life cycle that you never really wanted but don’t have the energy to subvert? When you are forced to understand that it’s all madness but know fully well that someone will have to take care of our aging parents? Well, Pissed Jeans went ahead and made one hell of a rock record…

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Pissed Jeans / King of Jeans

SP818 - Released: August 18, 2009

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Shallow

Hope for Men

King of Jeans

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• Promo Photo - Pissed Jeans 2 _ Shawn Brackbill
• Promo Photo - Pissed Jeans 1 _ Shawn Brackbill

• Bio - Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans bio (DOC)

• Cover - Shallow
• Cover - Hope for Men
• Cover - King of Jeans

• Admat - Pissed Jeans Hope For Men ADMAT

• Press - Alternative Press review of King of Jeans
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• NME review of King of Jeans
• New York Times review of King of Jeans
• Time Out NY review of King of Jeans
• King Of Jeans Pitchfork Review
• Pitchfork review of Hope for Men
• Pissed Jeans interview from Blastitude (fall '05)