So when a recording comes along like Gene Loves Jezebel’s “Heavenly Bodies” on the Savage label, it’s especially refreshing. 

“This is the strongest the band has ever been musically,” says guitarist James Stevenson in the press release, and we agree. 

Yes, there’s a compromise. The band doesn’t have the same cutting edge, the rawness that might have endeared it to underground alternative fans. 

But it hasn’t lost the feel, bringing a refreshing angle to a mainstream sensibility. 

Older fans will recognize threads of a Jim Morrison kind of insolence, and a nod to rock’s psychedelic days. At the same time, there’s a definite hook to the song writing whether it’s the recurring lyrical rhythms of “Wild Horse” or the haunting, fragile beauty of “Any Anxious Color.” 

Team it with Jay Aston’s vocals, a striking element of the music itself, and you have something that will make Gene Loves Jezebel fans out of everyone. 

And believers out of reviewers grown cynical on the industry’s dog days of winter 

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