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- Summary: The third full-length solo release for the New Zealand artist was recorded live and is a companion album to a film he wrote and directed.
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- Record Label: Mexican Summer
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 10, 2018Jassbusters is the first release where Mockasin is accompanied by a band--and it’s a revelation. His usual exaggeratedly washy, reverby sound is anchored and evolves into something fuller, groovier, twangier. ... Jassbusters deserves a big fat red marker pen A.
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Q MagazineOct 5, 2018It reaffirms Mockasin's status as the maddest biscuit in the box. [Nov 2018, p.109]
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Oct 10, 2018Jasssbusters' steady output of blue-tinted melodies make it an exceedingly easy listening experience.
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Oct 15, 2018All of the tracks on Mockasin's third album are groovy to a varying degree, and all feature Mockasin's falsetto voice on sparingly full display.
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Oct 5, 2018Jassbusters is the album of a musician who has been around the block a bit, knows what he wants and more importantly how to get it.
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MojoOct 5, 2018When he's good (Con Conn Was Impatient, B'n'D) he's sublime. [Nov 2018, p.96]
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Oct 11, 2018Jassbusters has enough chops to pull off the kind of slick 70's MOR soft rock that seems to be Mockasin's bailiwick, but as a whole, there's just not a lot to these songs to keep things consistently interesting, and the album comes off as more of an indulgent lark in Mockasin's growing canon.
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