Kurve, hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia are no strangers to the pages of this zine. We reviewed their releases a while ago and now they treated us with new one.
This is actually new songs, by their standards the longest ever released lasting six minutes. In fact, this is a conceptual idea e.p. about being jobless, hopeless, trying to survive in bleak surroundings of grey everyday. The lyrics are again poetic and superb in Croatian language and work perfectly in unison with singer Vito˙s fantastic voice. These guys are perfect musicians and their song structures are really complex with many different parts sounding energetic and complex at the same time. In fact these guys are unique being art and hardcore punk at the same time, their shows are energy pure so check them out when this virus shit ends.
Double Negative are international punk band with members from UK, Greece and South Africa which only proves how world gets smaller place day by day and the music binds us all.
There are 14 songs on this record. The music this band plays is beautiful melodic punk/skatepunk with super melodic nice vocals, perfect backing vocal harmonies, nice guitar riffs and nice mixture of midtempo punkrock and fast songs. My favorites on this record are Forbidden Beat, what a chorus and guitar solo, also Only Static and Age Of Apathy. I love the music, being more of an old school nineties influenced melodic punk with no holds barred and no philosophy, just emotions and melody. The scene is filled with technical skatepunk these days, but I love old school skate/melodic punk, this is a jewel.
I must admit that I have never listened to Catbite prior to this record. Catbite side of record has two songs, one being cover of The Clash. I love the melody of Horizontal Aggression, Brittany˙s vocals fitting just perfectly. Catbite are more on melodic and lighter side of ska punkrock with a bit of The Interrupters touch in the songs, I couldn`t help being reminded of that band. I would love to hear more Catbite songs in the future. Omnigone are no strangers to this zine, having reviewed their full length record a while ago. These two songs, are nice, Scratch Me Up having more of a cracksteady, harsh vibe and Nothing New being more straightforward melodic ska punkrock song. Good bands, good little split record!
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