(review) Stand Atlantic – f.e.a.r.

This album sounds like all those final releases of Victory Records prior to the end of that one time legendary label. Stand Atlantic offer 14 songs on this one. The music is pop punk, leaning more on poppy side of things than on hardcore or punk rock side of things. All of the songs are backed with that annoying electronic background like in all those newer pop punk bands coming out nowadays. Vocals are okay, but sometimes a bit too whiney and the backing vocal harmonies are done okay. Concerning the songs, there are couple of decent ones on this one, but there is more bad ones and sounding a bit all alike one another than good ones. This is a boring record in my opinion, rather go listen to something else which is better, don´t waste your time on this one.

Short Straps released new fast punk rock single with High End Denim Records!

Calgary’s Short Straps is the latest Alberta band to hop aboard High End Denim Records. With a self-titled EP release slated for a July 19 release, the band has unveiled their first single. “Tomorrow” is available on HED’s bandcamp and all streaming services and showcases the band’s talent for writing hard-hitting, dead ahead punk rock. 

The band had this to say about the song: “Continuously seeing relationships fall apart as you mature and move past problems in your life you realize how difficult some have had hardships within their private lives and turmoil with feeling pressure to maintain compelled us to address the state we all conform to and be held to an unattainable standard for relationships.“

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