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Sometimes, two is enough. The idea of a guitar player and drummer is sometimes looked at as a schtick, but with Jehovah’s it is just the right amount. Anthony Anonymous and Jehan Dough bring forth songs that fill out the sound like the best traditional lineups have to offer. Giant fuzzy riffs looped with aerobic drumming likely to win a world cup bring you back to a summer road trip to someplace waaaaaay more fun than high school in the golden age of the early nineties. These are songs sung with a love such things that can only be carried off with the experience brought with age while never losing that wide-eyed lust of youth. Hailing from Yspilanti’s strange crossroads, Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program are seasoned veterans of over-reaching and underachieving bands that gained small successes but not enough momentum to carry on. Finding themselves to be the last ones still playing together in ever shifting bands, they found in each other a desire to achieve, and succeed, and go on as far as they can. They recorded an ep (‘Knockin,’ with Scotty Iliunelli from the musical wizards Wildcatting and Bars of Gold), played shows, made friends, and laid a foundation to build on. Currently, JWPP have a new album in the works, filled with dark grooves ready to melt like a resin soaked bong toke in your old-enough-to-know-better ears. Look to your local watering hole to see these two underrated pros at their most riffed out bombast, making you long for a time you had little responsibilities and a nothing better to do than jam ‘Touch Me I’m Sick’ and the Tad record you bought in the dollar bin. This is wether or not you were a teen when that came out, or you are a teen who just read ‘Our Band Can Be Your Life.’ Heart on sleeve and Big Muff under foot you best get ready. -LGR
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