Artist: The Vapors
Release: Wasp In A Jar
Release Date: 2025
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If your taste of the Vapors is limited to Turning Japanese, then you’re missing out. Wasp In a Jar is the Vapors album, and the second since their 2016 reformation. Wasp in a Car is instantly recognizable as a Vapors album, overwhelmingly because of Dave Fenton’s voice. This lineup features Dave, and Steve Smith on Bass, with new members Michael Bowes on drum, who was also on their last release Tomorrow. Dave’s son Danny is on lead guitar. Aside from the voice, it sounds like a Vapors album from the original era. In fact, a few times I’ve had my library on shuffle and a track will come on, and in my head I’m thinking it must be one of the tracks on the expanded reissues of New Clear Days and Magnets. That being said, there are some differences, possibly due to drumming styles and production choices. Sometimes Daves voice sounds a sounds a little old, so I try not to think about the fact that it’s a 70 some odd year old man singing these songs. Still, it’s good stuff. If this had come out within a few months or years of Magnets it wouldn’t have disappointed.
Buying this is a little complicated depending on where you live, in the USA and Canada, or the rest of the world.