Yank Crime

Infobox Album |
Name = Yank Crime
Type = Album
Artist = Drive Like Jehu


Released = 1994
re-released 2003
Recorded = 1994
Genre = post-hardcore
Length = original: ~53:20
re-release: ~1:09:58
Label = Interscope Records
Swami Records
Producer = Drive Like Jehu
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfwxq8gldfe link] |
Last album = "Hand Over Fist/Bullet Train to Vegas"
(1992)
This album = "Yank Crime"
(1994)
Next album = "Yank Crime" (re-release)
(2003)

"Yank Crime" is the second and final album by the San Diego, California post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, released in 1994 by Interscope Records. It was the band's major-label debut and its artwork was created by singer/guitarist Rick Froberg. The band toured in support of the album but then quietly disbanded the following year as the members moved off to pursue other interests.

In later years, as guitarist John Reis found international recognition with his band Rocket from the Crypt, a gradually growing audience began to pinpoint Drive Like Jehu's music as a catalyst for the eclectic San Diego music scene and the emerging national emocore scene of the 1990s. In 2003 Reis re-released "Yank Crime" on his Swami Records label, including on it the songs from the band's "Hand Over Fist/Bullet Train to Vegas" 7" and the original version of "Sinews" that had appeared on the compilation "Head Start to Purgatory".

Track listing

All songs written by Drive Like Jehu
#"Here Come the Rome Plows" - 5:44
#"Do You Compute" - 7:12
#"Golden Brown" - 3:14
#"Luau" - 9:27
#"Super Unison" - 7:24
#"New Intro" - 3:32
#"New Math" - 4:06
#"Human Interest" - 3:24
#"Sinews" - 9:12
#"Hand Over Fist"* - 4:24
#"Bullet Train to Vegas"* - 2:40
#"Sinews" (original version)* - 9:32

*Tracks 10-12 appear on the 2003 re-release only.
*The titles of tracks 10 and 11 are incorrectly reversed on the album sleeve.

Performers

*Rick Froberg - guitar, lead vocals
*John Reis - guitar, backing vocals
*Mike Kennedy - bass
*Mark Trombino - drums
*Rob Crow - backing vocals on "Luau"

Album information

*Record label: Original release: Interscope Records; Re-release: Swami Records
*Recorded 1994 at Westbeach Recorders and Big Fish Studios
*Engineered by Donnell Cameron and Mark Trombino with assistance by Joe Peccerillo and Paul Waroff.
*Additional assistance Joe Kucera
*Mixed by Mark Trombino
*All songs and music by Drive Like Jehu, published by Sterno (BMI)
*Artwork by Rick Froberg.