NFR 009      The Jena Campaign      self-titled      MP3s: Should I?, You Lie The Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France espouses the view that The Jena Campaign, the series of military victories whereby the French army brought the Prussian Empire to its knees, exemplified the persistent, unyielding manner in which the diminutive emperor waged war. Thus it is an apt name and an apt album title for a band whose music imparts the feeling of an appropriate sonic accompaniment for steady, relentless marching through tribulations and travails. There is always a sense of foreboding underneath, a notion of impending disaster, one which, in a strictly musical sense, only fully surfaces in one very discernable instance, the rest of the time being content with fermenting underfoot. While The Jena Campaign never entirely sets up camp under the flag of sub-genres slow-core or sad-core, it maintains elements of each, while imbuing both with an impression of rootsiness and folkiness not normally associated with those down-tempo approaches, at times almost expressing joyousness, but the presentiment of imminent misfortune always returns, as expected and as dependable as misfortune itself. Tracklisting: Holiday / A View From A Window / The Wheel To Your Siren / Should I? / You Lie / If You Sing, Sing It Softly / Cut the Cord pt. 1 / We Dig Our Own Graves / From Here To North Dakota / If These Walls Weren't Here, I'd Tear Myself Down