Niki Lauda Firefighters are coming from Berlin, Germany and this is their demo, offering four songs. The music on this demo is just what I needed this morning, meaning fast and epic hardcore punk with angry screaming vocals and delivering punches in your gut with songs like ‘TikToks From The Trenches’ or ‘One Pint, One Piss’. This is a superb demo with blistering raging fast guitars still delivering mighty melodies behind all of it, angry guy screaming his lungs out and ironic/nihilistic/black humor lyrics and they reminded me a lot of S.O.D. or M.O.D. with their mixture of thrash and hardcore punk here. I can’t wait for more. This one is just too short, how good it is.
type advantage are hailing from New Jersey area and this is their EP. This one contains five songs of beautiful melodic pop punk, as the band says on their Bandcamp page, queer pop punk with lots of melody, emotions and some riot grrrl in some song structures like for example in ‘GTFO’. There are sweet, sweet, almost dreamy melodies like for example in ‘find me’, with superb interplay of two vocals, Jessica and Sean throughout the whole record. The lyrics deal with some personal themes, like finding yourself and enjoy living what you are, sexism and patriarchat, loving someone and strongly feeling it, relationships and daydreaming. All of the lyrics are written so smart and it was a pleasure to combine them reading when listening to this record. All of the EP is like made for day dreaming and all those sweet melodies stay with you long after you stopped listening to the record.
China Drum are coming from England and this little EP contains four songs. The common thread of all songs is 1st Avenue which is part of all song titles. Music is melodic punk, a bit rawer but with lots of pop punk influences in the song structures. Guitars are murkier and rawer, bass is pretty loud in the overall production but it all fits just perfectly. Vocals have that raspy, harsher vibe to themselves but sing melodic and they are just perfect for bands like this one. Of all four songs my personal favorites are ‘Can’t Stop 1st Ave’, and also ‘Last Chance 1st Ave’. This is a nice little melodic punk/pop punk EP. I would love to hear more from this band.
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