24 Hour Revenge Therapy is the third studio album by Jawbreaker, released on February 7, 1994, through Tupelo Recording Company and Communion Label. Before the release of their second studio album Bivouac (1992), frontman Blake Schwarzenbach developed a polyp on his vocal chords. While on tour in Europe, he went to a hospital; upon returning to the United States, the band took up day jobs. Recording sessions for their next album were held at Steve Albini‘s house in Chicago, Illinois across three days in May 1993. While on tour, they listened to tapes they made of the sessions; Schwarzenbach was unhappy with the recordings. Three songs were subsequently recorded in a single day at Brilliant in San Francisco, California in August 1993 with Billy Anderson.
24 Hour Revenge Therapy received generally favourable reviews from music critics, some of whom praised the songwriting. Described as a blend of their traditional punk rock and pop-punk sound, it harkened back to the simplistic arrangements of Jawbreaker‘s debut studio album Unfun (1990). They supported Nirvana on their US tour, which earned them backlash from members of the punk community, and then went on a stint with J Church, prior to the release of the album. They supported it with a seven-week US trek, a West Coast tour with Jawbox, and a stint in Europe at the end of 1994. 24 Hour Revenge Therapy has been included on best-of lists for pop-punk and emo by the likes of Alternative Press and Rock Sound; Chris Conley of Saves the Day and Rise Against had expressed admiration for the album. Nirvana‘s In Utero album was recorded by Albini shortly before Jawbreaker album 24 Hour Revenge Therapy.
Tracklist:
Side 1
- The Boat Dreams from the Hill
- Indictment
- Boxcar
- Outpatient
- Ashtray Monument
- Condition Oakland
Side 2
- Ache
- Do You Still Hate Me?
- West Bay Invitational
- Jinx Removing
- In Sadding Around
Jawbreaker
Blake Schwarzenbach: guitar, vocals
Chris Bauermeister: bass
Adam Pfahler: drums
Additional personal
Jack Kerouac: vocal sample
Steve Allen: piano
Production and design
Jawbreaker: producer
Steve Albini: engineer
Billy Anderson: engineer
John Golden: mastering
Don Lewis: playing photos
Adam Pfahler: other photos
