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I've been a Jet Lag Gemini fan for a good year or two now. I love going to all of their shows as well as working for them. They have come such a long way - I remember in the earlier stages, you didn't have to get beaten up to get to the front. They sound exactly like they do on their CD. They're upbeat, infectious, catchy, and you'll fall in love with them the moment you hear their music. "Geared For Action" and "Ready Set No" are my personal favorites, but "Don't Leave Me Hanging" is the classic that everyone knows. This CD is for anyone that enjoys music, no matter what genre one prefers. Soon enough, you'll listen to every song repeatedly, memorize their lyrics, and go crazy when you hear them perform. They're fun to talk to as well, :)

You won't regret it.
Buy this right away!

When I first heard Jet Lag Gemini I was blow back by how good they are. This is an EP that I will tell people that they should get as soon as possible! It is enjoyable from the very first song to the last. I highly recommend that you purchase this EP. And I can not wait until they come out with a new CD!!!

jet lag gemini is the best local jersey band everrr! everyone should deff. buy this CD and check them out at a show [now in tourrrr]. they are great and will make you dance dance dance and rock so much you'll need gallons of water afterwardddsss! they are truly the best freaking band ever!

<3 natalie.

ive been following JLG for a while, but this is the best yet!

One should always be careful about letting an inordinate degree of novelty affect their appreciation of art, but music by the young seems to be a particular Achilles Heel for critics and fans alike. Conor Oberst leaps to mind, having released his official debut, Letting Off the Happiness at the age of 18, but standards really drop like anvils with acts like Smoosh. Don't color me curmudgeonly - youth talents get a high five from me. No exception for the 16-to-20-year-olds in Jet Lag Gemini, but ideally I'd give the same response to, you know, the music, no matter what age they were. Sans context, critic reaction to the Business EP should be pretty uniform: these guys have a few things going for them, but they're a few burnt neurons short of an epiphany.

Not that Vlad Gheorghiu's guitarwork hasn't or won't provoke praise from the non-moshing elite. Long live Eddie Van Halen, he's got the chops to get a knee-jerk compliment from an 80's-nostalgic critic or two, but the fact is that the guitar lines that cartwheel around the songs are as aimless (and harmless) as toddlers in snowsuits. Essentially, he was left to add what gratuitous superfluities he'd like without the accomplished guitar style penetrating the shell of the ubiquitous, sludgy rhythm guitar that ultimately seems so much more important to the music Jet Lag Gemini is making. It's not that I necessarily prefer progginess to power-poppiness. I don't. But I can't let myself call this a successful integration of punk-revival structure and hair metal excess, because, though they coexist, there's precious little interaction.

The reason Vlad's role on the Business EP smells so fishy to me is the ease with which I could make the above claim. Fact is, it's hard to give good press to a band that, at its core, sounds so much like so many other bands. I almost ran to a punk-emo pal to help me with the "R.I.Y.L." for fear I'd be told Copeland was an obvious comparison - but no specific comparison is obvious. So the ersatz fusion of purported "virtuosic guitar" and "pop punk sensibilities" gets them a blurb for their record label to spout, but it's neither a solid reason to buy the record, nor the aspect most will come to appreciate in the band. They're basically your fun-loving local punk group, except with more than one or two recognizable songs, looking to pump fists and maybe get a little mosh action, but certainly not to appease critics. The six tracks on the Business EP are written using the same old bag of tricks, including as many start-stop dynamics as you can picture (rhythmic holds, five irritating seconds of sappy ballad, pretending to end the song, etc.) And let's please not even think about breaching traditional verse-chorus-verse structure.

The EP is consistently "good enough" to this end, and I'll be the first to admit that the less-than-20-minute running time makes the utter lack of variation way easier to swallow than full album format. In terms of promise for future releases, however, this band's treading on pretty thin ice. Even if they do manage to generate a batch of 11 new songs as consistent as or better than these 6 (in direct defiance of songwriting trends amongst basically everyone but Mark E. Smith, Stephin Merritt, or Robert Pollard) it can only serve to make their live show more varied, not their sound. Writing a review for this stuff is rough because it's like dissecting a basketball; I feel like I'm missing the point by pretending it's more cerebral than it is. It's a basketball. Throw it in the net. Long and short, this is an entirely different culture of music than the one with which I'm accustomed. It sets off different parts of the endocrine system. So frankly, I'm not keen on wasting thoughts that the band themselves probably didn't have in the first place. Some people will like Jet Lag Gemini, you outta know who you are. I just felt the need to comment on the bigger picture. Call it the Long Version.