“Even at their most blistering there’s a blazing technicality to everything they do”: Jinjer’s virtuosic Duél is not for the faint-hearted

Jinjer – Duel.

Jinjer have never been a band for the faint of heart. Their eclectic and progressive tendencies seemed to reach a peak on 2019’s Macro but even then they had a ferocious sense of propulsion at their core.

2021’s Wallflowers was a hulking follow-up and now Duél builds on that sense of barely-checked aggression. There’s good reason, given what has happened to the Ukrainian band’s homeland in that time.