Pitchfork - Eucalyptus

Before there was Drive Like Jehu there was Pitchfork. The first recorded band involving Jehu's main creative team, John Reis and Rick Fork. Prior to my first hearing this record, I was expecting what you usually get with bands that later evolved in to amazing bands. A record that smacks of inexperience and an over eager nature, something for just the die hard fans. Not something that a casual Jehu fan like myself would really want to listen to on any kind of regular basis. Frankly, I was pretty damn wrong. If It wouldn't get me a beating from the Jehu fan club, I'd be tempted to call this the third Drive Like Jehu record. Perhaps "Eucalyptus" isn't as mind blowing as "S/T" or "Yank Crime" and my inexperience thought can be held true in some places. But it's a fantastic prologue to "S/T" and shows that even from a younger age, this song writing team really were something special.

This record is pretty hard to get hold of, if you enjoy the sample tracks, get it at Swami Records, it's the only place I've been able to find it.

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