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In the midst of the breakup of well-beloved indie rock titans Pretty Girls Make Graves, the members have become a part of several different groups. In the case of keyboardist/guitarist Jay Clark, he teams up with Johnny Whitney and Cody Vitallo of also defunct punk outfit The Blood Brothers to form an avante-garde group known as Jaguar Love. It seems like a very odd thing for Clark to not only go for a group that leans the exact opposite of Pretty Girls Make Graves's post punk trappings, but to play drummer in the project as well as his usual role of keyboardist.

It seems like a very odd thing, because it truly makes for some disappointing and punishing music. While all of this review should not compare Jaguar Love to Pretty Girls Make Graves because the projects are vastly different, it's hard to see any redeeming elements to Jaguar Love. Highways of Gold is the opening track which begins with the horribly whiny sounds of Whitney's voice which leads into a frantic piece where nothing can be savored. While Vitallo and Clark do fine work with their instruments, it's hard to notice with Whitney's terrible attempt to be Kevin Barnes at a faster tempo. His "ahhhs" and "ohhhs" heard throughout the track do nothing to make it better and renders the song completely unlistenable.

The brief record does not get much better on My Organ Sounds Like... because while the blistering pace is remedied, Whitney tries and fails again with a poor man's Patrick Stump in a song that sounds very Fall Out Boy-esque excluding Whitney's screeching voice that can be heard throughout the track. Videotape Seascape, the EP's final track may be the track with a legitimately catchy rock sound, but soiled again by Whitney's annoying voice. Now Whitney is admittedly fine in his Blood Brothers work, but his voice never fits any of the three songs on the Jaguar Love EP, which is massively disappointing. It seems that the group tries too hard to have an experimental style akin to Pretty Girls Make Graves, but Whitney never can match the urgency of Andrea Zollo and the work is nowhere near as rough than Blood Brothers.

Ultimately, the Jaguar Love EP is an unfortunate mess, as it shows that even with members from iconic bands of the indie and hardcore scenes, there needs to be an agreeing sound to bond the three members and create fantastic music.