On October 28th Überyou releases their new single “Revolt” which is not only übergood but überimportant. The song and the accompanying music video speak for themselves. With a topic of interest, the song will be stuck in your head. It’s not only a story to be told but a song to be heard. Naming a song “Revolt”, you’ll know what to expect and that’s good. While the video is a homage to George Michael – best regards from Last Christmas by the way – the song itself is not that tranquil.
Nowadays the political discussion – and thus the shaping of public opinion – is far too often dominated by an unrationalized and unfounded fear of the unknown and moronic conspiracy theories. Such antisocial conduct divides our society and cannot go unchallenged. An opinion surely not limited to Überyou.
As the single follow-up to the banger “Road to Philly”, “Revolt” is the next harbinger of the upcoming album with the wonderful name “Silver Lining”. The band’s fifth album will be released on February 3rd on Gunner Records (Europe), Inhumano Records (Switzerland) and Say10 (USA). The unofficial christening will be held a week earlier on January 27th at Überfest in Zürich! Thank goodness there is a silver lining despite all the antisocial insanity going on right now.
By the way, the punk rockers from Zürich themselves are not that anti at all. Friendship and the love of music is above, or über if you will, all for Überyou. Since 2008, the group of best friends have been on the road together all over the world. With the spirit of the Gainesville punk bands like Hot Water Music and Against Me in their hearts and the essence of the Swiss punk scene in their veins, Überyou is energetic and with a DIY-attitude.
In the last ten years the band has toured and shared stages with bands like Turnstile, Dropkick Murphys, NOFX or Alkaline Trio. Whether in America, Asia or across Europe, Überyou brings Swiss punk rock all around the globe.
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Italian pop punx Sunset Radio Announce The New Album ‘Thank You, Goodbye!’
Third album for the five Romagna pop-punkers Sunset Radio, a sweaty, tough record by many points of view. Through pandemic, grasshoppers, aliens and so on, Sunset Radio will release “Thank You, Goodbye!” on November 25th in all digital stores.
Nine tracks ranging from a classic Californian pop-punk, up to ballads and alternative energetic songs in which there is no shortage of tight guitars and fast drums, a clear signature of the quintet from Ravenna: “It is without doubt the most mature and strenuous work we have ever done and we look forward to sharing it with all of you” says the band.
(review) Cockney Rejects – Power Grab
Sons of East London, legendary Cockney Rejects are back with new full length album. I must admit that I have never been a big fan of this band, but I did not pay attention to their albums, apart of few anthems that everybody knew from Oi compilations. Well, the new album is here. There are fourteen songs on this one, celebrating 40 years of being undefeated and other merry street punk themes like being stabbed in the back, not having your heart in the scene, fighting if attacked, celebrating life and living every day like there is no tomorrow…Lyrics are great because I always love such themes in punk and hardcore bands. But, music is another thing. There are couple of songs that stand out as highlights, like Paper Tiger, Stab In The Back or my personal favorite being My Heart Ain´t In It. But, other is just too hard rock, with couple of nwobhm influenced guitar songwriting. Melodies are okay in some choruses but I never quite liked hard rock influenced punk, so this one could have been much better than it really is. At the end of the album there is a cover of Tom Petty´s Learning To Fly sounding practically same as original. There are more songs that somehow passed under my radar as fillers than anthems. Okay album but nothing special.
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