The following is an excerpt from a radio interview with Jumpstart Malady frontman Kevin Edo:
Yeah, well I think we would all agree that with this, our fourth studio album, it’s really us. For the first time, you get to hear the real Jumpstart Malady. Stripped. Barenaked. No strings attached. This is without a doubt our most honest record to date.
I know what some of you are thinking-that’s what we said about the last album. Yes, that’s true and I don’t want to make it seem like we were being anything less than honest when we said that. Nonetheless, the studio chose which producer we worked with on that album which we now realize, looking back, limited our freedom of expression. I think we said that then not realizing how truthful an album can be.
Yes, that’s right; I suppose we did say the same sort of things about our first two albums. But, well, for the second album at least I think we were smarter and our official statement was that it was our most honest album to date. And that was true. Sure, at that point the label had almost total artistic control. Yes, one song on the album was completely written and recorded by a completely different set of individuals who we, to this day, have still not even met. But still that was definitely our most honest album up to that point.
And as for the first album. Well, I mean c’mon I think everybody realized that we were a complete studio creation. Yeah, we said it was a really honest album, but for goodness sakes the chorus to Uudet Julkaisut was in Finnish! None of us speak Finnish! Even these days when I sing that song in concerts I have no idea what that chorus means.
So yeah, anyways, this is us on this album. Totally. Yeah, um, the real deal and all that. Um, anyway, I’d feel much more comfortable if we could instead talk about my reported relationship with the tambourine player from the Equine Daisies.