Media Jeweler's 1-800-SUCCEED Out Now!
Media Jeweler's highly anticipated sophomore album '1-800-SUCCEED' is out now worldwide on LP, CD, CS & Digitally. You can buy the physical below or from your local independent record store or ingest the digital at your fave digi hub. Fresh of the band's first Japanese tour MJ has more in store to round out 2018. Look for US & Canada dates in the coming month which will bring the band back and forth across North America for the better part of June, July & August. On top of that we have more content in store - stay tuned!
"prickly guitars and subtle-yet-feverish rhythms, 1-800-SUCCEED expels intermittent bursts of cool, agitated calm." - Paste Magazine
"Brutal and brilliant." - Post Trash
"Tense, Spikey, Post Rock Inspired songs with deadpan vocals, and zig zagging, bent wire guitar parts" - Bandcamp New & Notable
At about 9:30 PM on the June day we wrapped “1-800-SUCCEED,” we walked over to the local Pawtucket dive to celebrate, just as we did upon completion of album one, with jello shots. Same as it ever was. Despite posted operating hours, we were greeted by a locked door and no explanation in a completely still, silent neighborhood fraught with urban decay.
There’s no cure-all elixir for feeling lost or confused and attempts at suppression may have some side effects. “1-800-SUCCEED” is the unavoidable hangover that follows our first foray into multi-level marketing, “$99 R/T Hawaii” — the promise of a better, or at least other, place within reach.
We bought and sold the dream. While deep in an unsustainable REM slumber, escapist ambitions took a nosedive out of that budget airliner, artlessly hurtling back to earth with no recourse. Maybe there was nothing to celebrate. There’s no tube amp warm enough, no microphone sensitive enough, no pickup sweet enough to shake off the debris of this world. You can’t snap your fingers and step out of this claustrophobic plane of existence. “1-800-SUCCEED” is the sound of this realization.
“1-800-SUCCEED” was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, RI by Seth Manchester and Keith Souza (Lightning Bolt, Battles, Load Records).
1st Pressing
300 Transparent Blue Vinyl