Letters To Nowhere is second full length opus by Riga, Latvia based punks Have No Heroes. This one is a keeper. There are intro plus twelve songs of fast and nineties influenced melodic skate punk/hardcore on this one. What differs this band from many others are smartly written politically themed lyrics that delve into personal, but if you read between the lines you will find out so much more about situation today and relate to dealing with it through every day life and learn you are not alone in this constant struggle and feel somehow consoled and beautiful about it at the same time. Songs are fast and having such sweet melodies that make you wanna go to pit and smile at the same time. Vocals are fantastic, I love every single line, backing harmonies and vocals are so fantastic. My personal favorites are Letters To Nowhere, Funeral Of The Genre, Divide And Conquer but you will have to find for yourself your personal favorites on this beautiful record.
Texas melodic punks Bowling For Soup released recently their new record and it is for sure one of the candidates for melodic punk record of the year 2022! This one contains 15 songs of such sweet melodies, anthemic songs, humor, a bit of melancholy, fun and it will make your heart jump from joy and smile on your face. This one is a keeper! Bowling For Soup deal with different themes such as getting old in Getting Old Sucks(But Everybody´s Doing It), wanting to be Brad Pitt, worshipping Alexa Bliss(also my favorite girl in wrestling!), hey the album also has a pause for peeing before listening to the rest of the album. I never saw these guys perform live, but I can bet their shows are fun as hell. One of my favorites is also The Best We Can, being a bit more of an acoustic song but having lyrics I can totally relate to. After All These Beers is also one of my personal highlights but this one as a whole is a keeper, so go check this one out, this is an instant classic!
Sonoma County is a place where nineties melodic punk rock existed and thrived with bands such as Tsunami Bomb or Bracket falling to mind immediately. North Bay in California has new and superb melodic punk bands and One Armed Joey is one of those. This trio has been around since 2014 and this is their first full length album after releasing couple of e.p.-s. This one contains ten songs of absolutely beautiful melodic punk rock with some pop punk influences and it is so sweet to listen to. Vocals are such honey and cinnamon sprinkled melodies and backing vocal harmonies deliver such overlayer of beauty to the main melodies. Guitar work is awesome, songwriting is totally great and this album or music does not get boring or repetitive for one second. Lyrics are another story, so carefully and well written and handle with today´s anxieties that any of us have and hold, and teach us to somehow try to turn those anxieties to happiness and cope with that in everyday rush and all day running and trying to catch something. The album as a whole is at the same time melancholic but also full of hope and not giving up. Besides playing pop punk, there are also a bit of reggae influence like in part of one of my personal favorites Mirrors. Also, songs I mention as my highlights are Rot and Lost Dog pt 1 and 2. This is a great album.
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