The guitars are ragged, anxious, rueful even. Almost hermetically sealed within the core of an album characterized by bangers that are uplifting, defiant, and you know- fun, this track is a startlingly direct rumination on mental trauma and a visceral close up on the nature of suicide. “Coming from their 2007 release The Woods, which is one of the best rock albums of this generation, ‘Jumpers’ is a bit anomalous.
Pro tip- to The Long Goodbye live version of this track for an insane Pat Mahoney drum solo.” She could read out a grocery list and it would be captivating. As the track precipitates on anticlimactic sputtering out she finally closes with the dead pan but utterly energizing order, “Get Innocuous”. Nancy Wang is, as always, the secret weapon her stoic but firmly domineering vocal sequence at the end builds so much anticipation and tension. The way the syncopated beat briefly doubles up on itself after the first climax is amazing. “Where once you had believed it, now it see it’s sucking you in”, continues to be one of the coolest lines ever.
When James Murphy actually starts singing it sounds like he’s being processed through a pressurized echo chamber and it sounds awesome. Icy cold and dis-compassionate percussive streaks mix with hypnotic multiplying sequencers and other worldly synth. While that’s ostensibly true (‘All My Friends’ after all is pretty much the best song of that decade), ‘Get Innocuous’ is more of a thrill, and more emblematic of their pursuit to merge punk, electronic, rock, and pop into one kaleidoscopic amalgam. “From their landmark release Sound Of Silver, everyone will tell you ‘All My Friends’ is the best song from this album.
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