Can't Maintain
Studio album by
Andrew Jackson Jihad
ReleasedOctober 13, 2009
Genre
Length28:23
LabelAsian Man
Andrew Jackson Jihad chronology
Operation Stackola
(2009)		 Can't Maintain
(2009)		 Knife Man
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Punknews.org [1]
Sputnikmusic[2]

Can't Maintain (stylized as can't maintain.) is the third studio album by Andrew Jackson Jihad.[3]

Production

Jeff Rosenstock played horns and theremin on the album.[4] The release was mastered by Carl Saff. In 2019, AJJ frontman Sean Bonnette ranked Can't Maintain as his third favourite album from the band's six releases to date[5] and described it as "the only record thus far where we knew the sequence going into it."[5] In 2019, AJJ celebrated the album's 10th anniversary by playing it in full at a fundraising concert in Phoenix, Arizona.[6][7]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Sean Bonnette; all music is composed by Andrew Jackson Jihad

No.TitleLength
1."Heartilation"2:01
2."Self Esteem"1:36
3."Love in the Time of Human Papillomavirus"2:04
4."Evil"2:06
5."You Don't Deserve Yourself"2:30
6."Olde(y) Tyme(y)"1:09
7."Kazoo Sonata in Cmaj"1:17
8."We Didn't Come Here to Rock"2:23
9."Truckers Are the Blood"3:01
10."Love Will Fuck Us Apart"1:44
11."Sense, Sensibility"2:16
12."Who Are You?"2:40
13."White Face, Black Eyes"3:26
Total length:28:23

Reception

Adam Finley, writing for PopMatters, described Can't Maintain as one of the best albums of 2009.[8] Robin Smith of PopMatters wrote that the album "opened with scuzzy electric guitars and pounding drums" and called the track "We Didn't Come Here to Rock" a "delightfully ironic rocker."[9] The A.V. Club included the track “Who Are You?” in its list of songs about bad fathers, adding that Bonnette "[coats] his complex emotions in witty one-liners."[10]

Personnel

Andrew Jackson Jihad

  • Sean Bonnette - lead vocals, guitar, kazoo, glockenspiel
  • Ben Gallaty - bass, guitar on "Evil", backing vocals
  • Preston Bryant - guitar on "You Don't Deserve Yourself", piano on "White Face, Black Eyes"
  • Deacon Batchelor - drums
  • Owen Evans - banjo, piano on "Evil"

Additional personnel

  • Jeff Rosenstock - saxophone, theremin
  • Kepi Ghoulie - whistling
  • David Jerkovich - drums, viola, mandolin, electric guitar, organ, and trumpet all on "Love Will Fuck Us Apart"
  • Davy Charles - trumpet, trombone on "Truckers Are the Blood"
  • Matt Keegan - trombone
  • Tobie Milford - violin
  • Jaspen Nelson - trombone on "Truckers Are the Blood"
  • Allyson Seconds - vocals on "Love In The Time Of Human Papillomavirus"
  • Carl Saff - mastering
  • Jalipaz Nelson - recording, mixing, noise
  • Ryan Piscitelli - artwork, layout

References

  1. ↑ "Andrew Jackson Jihad-Can't Maintain". Punknews.org. October 13, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ Can't Maintain review Sputnikmusic. Published December 13, 2009. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Can't Maintain at AllMusic. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Jason P. Woodbury (2011) "Andrew Jackson Jihad's Sean Bonnette on Knife Man and Gawker" Phoenix New Times. Published September 16, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  5. 1 2 Dan Ozzi (2019) "AJJ’s Sean Bonnette Ranks the Band’s Six Albums" Noisey. Published February 1, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Amy Young (2019) "AJJ Celebrates Can't Maintain's Anniversary at Cowtown S.K.A.T.E.'s Annual Fundraiser" Phoenix New Times. Published October 1, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  7. ↑ Ed Masley (2019) "Here's some great local music to check out in Phoenix, from Fairy Bones to Spafford" AZCentral. Published October 4, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ Adam Finley (2011) "Andrew Jackson Jihad: Knife Man" PopMatters. Published October 10, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ Robin Smith (2014) "Getting Naked, Playing with Guns: An Interview with Andrew Jackson Jihad" PopMatters. Published 28 April 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Bad dads: 19 songs about shitty fathers" The A.V. Club. Published June 11, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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