Stolen Jars is a band from Brooklyn, New York, that impresses on its new album “I Won’t Let Me Down” with an inventive mix of indie rock and indie pop cast in catchy but also inventive pop songs,
the fourth album of the band, The beautiful combination of the voices of Cody Fitzgerald and Sarah Coffey, but then the songs of Stolen Jars. They are songs that are particularly easy to hear and occasionally come eerily close to the perfect pop song, but the songs of the Brooklyn band are also full of pleasant surprises.
Exuberant in its melancholy, kinetic in its longing, “I Won’t Let Me Down” is a record of self-discovery, the open space between losing love and finding it again. Lead vocalists Cody Fitzgerald and Sarah Coffey sing to each other across the gap — on “Reality TV,” they align for each chorus, on “In The Bad Times,” they’re literally split in the stereo field. In melody and harmony, their perspectives intertwine — as the band put together the record, Fitzgerald was beginning a new relationship while Coffey was exiting an old one. There are no contradictions here: every moment of acceptance erupts with energy, every moment of tension passes with peace.
Stolen Jars was originally a solo project by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cody Fitzgerald, but the band has flourished since working with singer-songwriter Sarah Coffey, guitarist and songwriter Elias Spector-Zabusky, drummer Isaiah Hazzard and keyboardist Grant Meyer.
The guitar work is often combined with electronics, which results in a nice full sound. It’s a sound further enriched by inventive drum parts, which also show that Stolen Jars digs deeper than most other bands in the genre. You can hear that the band now has three songwriters in its ranks, because the quality of the songs on “I Won’t Let Me Down” is an excellent listen. It will be even more fun when Greta Kline, known as Frankie Cosmos, contributes, but even without this contribution,
Stolen Jars is Cody Fitzgerald, Sarah Coffey, Elias Spector-Zabusky, Grant Meyer, and Isaiah Hazzard
Cody Fitzgerald – Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Drums, Banjo, etc.
Sarah Coffey – Vocals
Elias Spector-Zabusky – Guitar, Bass, Keys
Grant Meyer – Keys
Isaiah Hazzard – Drums
Greta Kline – Vocals on “Run It Wild”
Joe Reinhart – Guitar, Bass
Sumner Becker – Saxophone
Dorothy Carlos – Cello
released August 4th, 2023
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