Rick Cassman's latest brand-new single, "Jennifer Jangle," was released as an homage to the quiver of tambourines and the embrace of reto-pop charm. The tambourine, Jennifer's weapon of choice, guides the way with popping jangles, weaving through Cassman's tight formats and retro twangs. The production is a standout, demonstrating that Rick knows how to mix and match modern-day studio wizardry with the soul of yesteryear.
"Jennifer Jangle" is gleaning the threads of the past and weaving them into something newly familiar. Recorded in the familiar surroundings of his home studio during the opening fortnight of March, it's dripping in honesty and soul. There's none of that play-acted shit here, just music made for real by a bloke who loves the music for real and loves the characters who make it.
"Jennifer Jangle" is a song of musical devotion to a girl and her tambourine. But underneath that deceptively golden exterior, there's an undercurrent of deeper rhythm: the column-of-sky homage to youthful passion, the urge to play a single song over and over and over again, the one person we all knew as kids that you'd swear lives every moment inside a song. "Jennifer Jangle" is something intangible, a vibe, a memory, maybe even a reflection, and for anyone who's danced a little too wild to a particular beat, be it one's drum or tambourine, well, all right.
Rick assumes both the songwriter and sonic wizard role and flashes the diversity that's defined his musical career. And though the track was assembled in a modest home studio, you'd never guess it from the finished product. "Jennifer Jangle" sounds exuberant and alive, filled with that particular quality of spirit you can only get from someone making music for the love of it.
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