Nobody was watching, even though it should have come as no surprise. While everyone was involved with, and enthralled by, a dozen and one other bands, Nashville’s Jet Black Factory quietly became one of the more creative forces to be found in the city. On the heels of two successful and widely acclaimed EPs, House Blessing is Jet Black Factory’s first full-length album and their most mature and engaging creative effort to date.
Dave Willie’s voice has grown into a magnificent instrument; dark, haunting vocals caressing the somber, oblique poetry that is the band’s lyrical forte. Bob German’s six string work perfectly compliments the material while the remainder of the band skillfully manipulates the texture and tone of the material. Treading a stylistic ground which owes as much to the Velvet Underground as it does Joy Division or R.E.M., Jet Black Factory has delivered a debut LP, of sorts, which is sure to make the coastal trend-setters sit up and take notice. (391 Records, released 1990)
Review originally published by The Metro, April 1990
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