Nashville, Tennessee duo Jeff The Brotherhood consists of two brothers. Neither of them is named Jeff. Jake and Jamin Orrall describe themselves as “not garage rock”. Fair enough. I can see how the untrained ear may jump to that conclusion. Labels and genres aside, the fact of the matter is that Jeff The Brotherhood make a hell of a lot of noise.

We Are The Champions, Jeff’s third record, begins with a blistering guitar solo that slaps you in the face and punches you in the gut. It is a tumultuous, stormy, whiplash of an opening that sets your expectations somewhere between Thin Lizzy and Deep Purple. Then, all of a sudden, silence before the line ‘I’ve been thinking about your Mom’.

What must be a contender for best fake-out, Jeff The Brotherhood do a 180 and turn the opening of their album from ‘70s hard rock into ‘The Blue Album’-era Weezer. Vocalist Jake Orrall sounds eerily like Rivers Cuomo, complete with staple ‘whoa ohs’. The resemblance it so striking that Weezer fans are going to wish this really was a Weezer album, and that Raditude and that album named after a Lost character never happened.

Ryan Lynch

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