Artist description Jumping Ugly is a band based out of Burlington Vermont. Jumping Ugly has a distinct sound that uses many vocal harmonies and a strong groove.

Music Style Alternative Rock

Artist History Jumping Ugly was formed in 1995 by Justin Couture and Bill Cooper. After a few member changes the lineup was completed with Jason Couture on Guitar and Jeff Hutchinson on Drums. The band has split up for now but a reunion is a possibility in the future.

Group Members Bill Cooper - Guitar/Vocals Justin Couture - Bass/Vocals Jason Couture - Guitar/Vocals Jeff Hutchinson - Drums/Vocals

Albums Seven, That not so fresh feeling

Press Reviews Jumping Ugly Seven By Max Owre Look, I'm not hip enough to keep track of what this kind of music is. Let it suffice to say that the music is hard and goes "Chunk, Chunk, Chunk" and uses a lot of pentatonic riffs. When I hear music like this the hair stands up on the back of my neck and I grit my teeth with ballsy pleasure. Musically, Jumping Ugly is tight and impressive. My Beavis and Butthead erection goes soft, however, when the singing starts. It's a nineties thing not to have complex melodic lyricism. Is this Grunge? The album Seven is full of the standard juxtapositions of rhythm that make hard music interesting. These guys are good at it. The opening song "Broken Off" has several right and left turns in its structure which are the trademarks of this style. "The Climb" starts nicely with a mellower feel and then unpredictably, or predictably, launches into another chunkfest. The voice on part of "The Climb" is filtered though some effect which does wonders for the sound of the band-leave that thing on!!! I do like when these guys sing together. It adds a dimension which is missing otherwise. The two dimensionality disappears during a song like "This Mess," where the vocals of Justin Couture and Bill Cooper mesh nicely over the hard driving rock. The album is complete with the acoustic guitar anthem "Empty," where the two voices mesh nicely again, but this ends with what I quickly identified as that 'Jumping Ugly Sound'. When I hear a line like "Words without voices scream at me," I can see some guys with the hair chopped short in front and long in back (Editors note: That's called a mullethead.) vacantly staring out of their Novas reciting this stuff with very serious expressions on their faces. Some interesting sonic touches are thrown in at times which are impressive for this homemade disc, but I want more from the songs themselves. For whatever my opinion is worth, I find this is a good album for a presentation of the genre, but I won't walk around humming these tunes. P.S. Since I wrote this in May, I have been walking around humming Jumping Ugly tunes. I stand corrected. Max Owre stands corrected. Sounds painful.

Location Burlington, VT - USA

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