Its high, and its steep...

This was for J&MC to the 90s what the VU's Loaded was to the 70s; a seminal band that inspired a generation of musicians with their noisiest material release a perfect pure pop record towards the end of their heyday. Occurring amidst the mid-90s mass pop conversion of contemporaries Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., as well as many of their own sonic descendents such as Pavement, Stoned & Dethroned is an incredibly self-aware and polished record. With hangover clarity, J&MC sift the emotional feedback wall of Just Like Honeys past and distill from it concrete sentiments to be transmuted onto a large variety of guitar pop moods. The simple arrangements and the crisp, nuanced production convey a band stripped naked of any glamour or mystique past darkness might hold and simply continuing to make the music they make, which just so happens to be exactly what their present was ready for. With a Junkie's severity, J&MC observe their position in an forgiving cycle of existence and openly embrace it, with life-changing results.