With the release of their debut album 'Minutes' on The Richter Collective, Irish post-hardcore trio Jogging have been very busy building up a fan base around their home country. Kind words from magazines like Hot Press and AU, along with webzines like Ragged Words and State.ie, have been fueling interest in their exciting live shows and “ferociously impressive debut” album.

Musically, the band wouldn't be out of place sitting amongst Dischord/Washington luminaries like Fugazi, Faraquet and even early Q and Not U, something which was only strengthened by the stamp of approval from T.J. Lipple, who mastered the record in Washington DC. Recorded in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow by James Eager & Eoin Whitfield (Enemies) over 8 days, it was the 4th release in 2010 from Irish indie label The Richter Collective (home to Adebisi Shank, The Redneck Manifesto, Not Squares & more).

Their first 2 years saw Jogging share the stage with acts as diverse as Parts & Labor, Polvo, Crystal Antlers, Ponytail, Pulled Apart By Horses, And So I Watch You From Afar and The Redneck Manifesto. Word of mouth from these shows, along with radio sessions for national stations 2FM (for The Dan Hegarty Show), RTE Radio 1 (for Arena) and on TV (for TG4’s Ceol ar an Imeall) have meant that Jogging have been very busy in 2010. Minutes also placed in the top 10 of Nialler9.com’s Reader’s Choice Irish Albums of 2010 and has garnered nominations in the Best Rock and Best Indie albums of the year in the Digital Socket Awards.

Jogging are an intense, raw blend of post-hardcore and gutsy indie rock while maintaining a fresh, urgent and current edge. Their aim for 2011 is to get out of Ireland and take their angular rock to the rest of the world.

You can hear a full free stream of the album here - http://jogging.bandcamp.com/

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Jogging - "Minutes" Album reviews:

Totally Dublin - 4/5 **** "If first impressions were all that went in to album reviews, this debut would have so many gold stars on it you'd think it was space. No ironic eyebrows raised, Minutes is a genuinely watertight rock record of impressive quality"

Hot Press - 4/5 **** "Jogging hold absolutely nothing back. Relentless, gushing and ten times freer than your average debut. Jogging have real soul, teasing us from beneath a mass of dizzy guitar work + ferociously barked vocals"

Sunday Business Post - 4/5 **** "their raucous debut fires out of the traps and maintains a breakneck pace relentlessly until the end...challenging style and melody, and coming out well on top. There may be other instruments in here somewhere, but Minutes is all about screaming vocals and loud, frantic guitars with clever, intricate, fiddly parts aplenty, over a robust racket of thundering drums. Excellent" http://www.sbpost.ie/agenda/listen-look-play-49162.html

Ragged Words - 8/10 "rousing, urgent guitar music....a ferociously impressive debut. A pissed-off album for a pissed-off time" http://www.raggedwords.com/reviews/album-reviews/jogging-minutes

State Magazine - 8/10 "Jogging are loud. Delightfully so. From the opening salvo of the first track it becomes clear that Minutes is an unforgiving album which unapologetically moves from one surging, breathless track to the next before ending just like it began – fast, loud and hard. It’s difficult to deny Jogging’s excellence at crafting songs of the highest intensity. Dark and foreboding, yet simultaneously catchy and memorable – a notoriously difficult balance to achieve" http://www.state.ie/2010/05/album-reviews/jogging-minutes/

AU Magazine - 8/10 "a tight-as-fook unit, full of confidence, carrying buckets of chunk, rumbling bass, hooks, verses and all that good stuff – there’s even a nostalgic hint at times of Girls Against Boys’ Scott McCloud in the vocals, all raspy and alluring. Should have you up at the front grasping your sweaty flannel shirt in your hands, eyes raised to a dirty ceiling, screaming every word along with the trio" http://iheartau.com/reviews/jogging-minutes/

Keep It Fast - 8/10 "‘Minutes’ is the kind of breathless, exhausting rock album that most sane people will struggle to not air-punch along to. Gritty, no-nonsense punk meets post-hardcore that exemplifies just how vitriolic, passionate + energised music can be, a magnificent debut of aggression and aggravation." http://www.keepitfast.com/jogging-minutes-richter-collective-album-review/

Brain Tumours For Breakfast "Imbued in Minutes is an inescapable freneticism that perpetually underpins a happy marriage of discordance and melody. Every single song is dynamic and multi-faceted. Concise and crushingly effective. It's indisputable that Minutes is a hardcore coup" http://peesbigadventureblogspot.com/2010/04/ghost-of-hardcore-post.html

Those Geese Were Stupefied - "blistering, gutsy, energetic. if Minutes isn’t the best Irish album released this year, then it’s definitely in the top three"
http://thosegeese.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/interview-project-23-jogging/

Nick Thinks "seriously talented musicians. They sound angry but I bet they’re not really" http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/jogging-minutes-richter-collective-2010/

Road Records - "a truly wonderful blast of old school shouty post punk featuring lots of clever math rock and post rock nuances. A really solid blast of classic avant punk, noisy as hell, just like it should be" www.roadrecs.com

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