The Jesus Lizard

In the jade-cultivating climes of online rock journalism, the angle of “band has new album,” is about as interesting as watching Instagram reels of your brother-in-law’s recent bathroom remodel. But when a band decides to follow up their last album from over 26 years ago? That’s high on testicular fortitude and as dumb as fidget spinners. Then you learn that said band is the Jesus Lizard – and everything in your pathetic cultural dystopia suddenly falls away and the air smells like Heaven…

Rack, the seventh studio album from this legendary underground-rock fulcrum, comes out into the world on September 13 via Ipecac Recordings. Produced by Paul Allen at Audio Eagle, Rack holds 11 tracks of brisk guitar rock you haven’t heard since… the last time the Jesus Lizard took over a stage in your town. Now, over two decades since their last record together, the Jesus Lizard—vocalist David Yow, guitarist Duane Denison, bassist David Wm. Sims and drummer Mac McNeilly—have returned with a record teeming with the kind of madness needed to beat down today’s AOR mediocrity and piss-perfect pop drivel alike.

When asked to describe what the 2024 model the Jesus Lizard has in store for a new strata of audiences, Yow deadpans:  “Each one of us is just going to do what we do, you know? David will look like he's really pissed off about something. Duane will look like he’s not sure if he's gay or just not feeling well. Mac will be chewing a very large piece of air, and I'll be acting like an idiot.”

The Jesus Lizard. They might not be young, but they will never, ever get fucking old.

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