Let me explain.
Jay Clark (the black guy on the left hand side of the picture) used to be in a band called Pretty Girls Make Graves, which took its name from a song by The Smiths. He played really awesome guitar riffs all the time, and PGMG was a really solid band in general. They played post-punk influenced melodic indie rock and released 3 albums before breaking up in 2006. Élan Vital is the most well known of these.
Download: Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital (2006)
Johnny Whitney (the pasty guy in the middle) was the singer in The Blood Brothers, and his voice has been described as "a ten year old boy screaming while being strangled." When my friend Taylor first heard Whitney's voice he thought it was just a beefy sounding woman.
Download: The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (2006)
There was a lot of hype surrounding the breaking up of both PGMG and the Blood Bros, and speculation about what projects the members would be working on next was all over the place. When I first heard of Clark and Whitney combining forces to make an album under the name Jaguar Love, it sounded almost too good to be true. The album mixes the two band's styles together perfectly, implementing both PGMG's melodic indie rock stylings and The Blood Brother's hardcore, distorted attitude. Here it is. Awesome.
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