The veteran, edgy House Jacks take some major creative chances with their new circus-themed 'Fitchy & Grikko.' The four Jacks, who just added powerful Los Angeles singer/composer Troy Horne to their exciting mix, bring us 12 original songs wrapped in one of the most graphically stunning (on a level with the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' album cover in our opinion) liner notes of the year. This slick, 6-panel mixed-media art may or may not have anything to do with these 12 cuts, songs like 'The Bone,' 'This Man's Pride,' 'Athena,' 'The Fall,' 'Light of Stars,' 'Conversations,' 'Take It,' 'I Am The Man,' 'Broken Up' and 'Cereal'-possibly the Jacks are messing with our heads, or simply found a really cool computer graphic artist and told him/her to go nuts. It doesn't really matter because the music, as in all Jacks CDs, rocks! The guys are quite comfortable in any number of musical styles, soul, funk, pop, alt, techno-it's all good. As long as the Jacks keep reinventing themselves as artists and pushing the a cappella envelope, we will keep listening, dancing and applauding!

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