Remember The Run Up? We already featured Bristol punks on the pages of our zine. This time they are releasing the new full length record with Real Ghost Records and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.
The new record contains 12 songs of beautiful melodic punkrock, modern, fresh yet still catchy and memorable. This is not your California styled melodic skatepunk, fast and crunchy, rather more emotional punk with heartfelt lyrics and something for everyone to find themselves in. From the more sped up and energetic Portraits, to midtempo anthemic Grip, The Run Up find themselves in complete control of our ears and emotions as listeners. One of my personal favorites is Your Omission, having a barrage of noise turning into melody and galloping punkrock drum force. Discretion and Sunsets continue in the same direction, but the real gems on this record come towards the end with The Run Up and Light It Up being true little stars in the crown of underground melodic punkrock for the 21st century. Try this one. This band gets only better and better with every release.
Minus Youth are releasing their debut full length. I listened and reviewed the record for our zine.
Formed at the end of 2016. these guys from Stuttgart are in no way strangers on the hardcore scene cause they have been playing in other bands prior to this one. Minus Youth plays hardcore, European school, leaning heavily on 90-ies hardcore like Rykers, Brightside, Right Direction but also to the NYHC school of hardcore, the singer sounds in many songs like Lou Koller from Sick Of It All. The music is aggressive street hardcore, yet remaining catchy in some parts. I love the faster, more straight forward stuff like Nothing, but also slower and more Earth Crisis-like rolling songs, for example Homeaway. This is hardcore that we used to call new school when we were kids in the 90-ies, now that is old school as my friend likes to say. Anyway, this record is a must for all you fans of metalic hardcore punk with street vibe and get this one, for sure you will mosh to the songs of Minus Youth.
Joliette are relatively young Mexican band and this is their most accomplished record up to date with 12 songs running in circa one hour time out with Zegema Beach Records.
This is pretty original hardcore band with mixture of post hardcore, emo, screamo and noise thrown in the song structures. The songs sound chaotic at the time while first listening but in fact, they are mathematically correct and the musicianship of these guys is just astounding. One thing that I must emphasize is the beast of a drummer holding all that rhytm changes from the fast aggressive stuff in Muletilla Japonesa accross complicated beats of Strathos, the drummer is a beast sounding like ten hands instead of two. The guitars are nervous, at the time really chaotic, yet in fact there are gentle emotional themes underneath it all. I love harmonica in some songs and the atmosphere of the whole record, the vibe it creates, kinda sad and melancholic, but also gives kinda hope. I hear that band has been banned from the USA for 5 years, so all the proceedings from the record go to them, so go get one, you won´t regret it!
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