(record review)SENF-Cinik e.p.

There is no global scene without supporting your local scene and little bands that your friends play in, global scene is in fact the network of such bands, so I present you Senf, the band from the town Varaždin, Croatia and I listened and reviewed their new e.p. for our zine.

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This is the third e.p. from the guys and I already wrote about the last one here. Senf is a band that has experienced guys that are in the scene for a long time now, from bands Rectal Destroyer, Fajrunt, The Hangover, Alkotest…This band plays crossover hardcore punk with a lot of metalic parts, stoner parts and pretty brutal vocals courtesy of their vocalist Ivda. But, at the same time their music has that melody and haunting way of playing, the line that is similar to all of the Varaždin bands with excellent musicianship, these guys can really play. This e.p. contains 6 songs, okay 5 plus a cover of old band Skorbut from Varaždin. My personal favorites from this record are Pas and Japa. The lyrics are in Croatian language, mainly satire, cynism, but there are a lot of contemporary themes that can be read between the lines if you know what I mean. Senf grows from e.p. to e.p. and I can safely say that this is their best material to date. Check this one out!

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/senfofficial/

 

Resolve from France released new single Pendulum, listen it here!

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France based quartet has been eager to show their peer that they won’t settle for anything but greatness. Resolve offered us in the end of 2018 a single “Carmela” that brought all the attention of the fans of melodic hardcore fans. Their strong work ethic and attention to details allowed them to open shows for Architects, Every Time I Die, While She Sleeps to name a few, all of that within the first few months of the band’s stammering career.

Thanks to a strong lead-up campaign, a couple of singles released via the popular YouTube channel Dreambound, and various official Spotify playlists, their debut 6 tracks EP ‘Rêverie’, released in October 2017 reached peak position in the French Itunes Metal Charts and #5 in the Rock Charts. The four boys spent the rest of their first year as a band touring their home country as well as Europe and the UK, and unveiled music videos one after the other, fulfilling their initial plan of releasing a fully watchable record.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve had this question stuck in our heads: what’s the best possible comeback for a young and unestablished band after three months of almost complete silence?
Definitely not by releasing your longest running song yet, which also happens to include a lengthy atmospheric break and a « drum solo-ish » ending? And yet, as I’m writing this a few days before unveiling ‘Pendulum’ to the world, I don’t think we’ve been prouder of a song yet. It includes lots of elements that were already used sporadically on our earlier works: synths, strings, vocoders, none of those are really new to our music, but are delivered in a much more noticeable and mature way this time around. It’s also worth mentioning that the overall production, while still completely done by the three of us in our own recording studio, is a step-up from our previous releases for sure.

Lyrics-wise, I think this is the most honest to ourselves we’ve ever been. Letting go of all the self-doubt that inevitably stems from giving so much of yourself to your art was a cathartic process for sure. That’s also the reason why we chose to shot our most minimalist video yet to accompany the song, as a way to invite the listener to delve into the various layers of instrumentation and focus on lyrical delivery.

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