Scott Sellers, once the guitar/vocalist for Rufio releases his music alone now, for fun, like he says. I listened and reviewed his new album for our zine.
The California based musician made a new album with 11 songs. The music of Scott Sellers is melodic punk, okay you can also call it skatepunk. The songs are varied and the album doesn`t get boring for one second while listening. There is faster material with beautiful melodies and anthemic choruses made for singing along like for example Free which is one of the best songs on this record. Chemistry is also one of the more faster songs with superb melodies, song structure and energy. I must say that when I was a kid one man bands were somehow an abomination for me, I never understood why people do music as a one man band, never playing live, when for example all of my bands main goal was to present our music live for the kids. Now, I look at that picture with different eyes and understand the logic and philosophy behind it, because there are one man bands/projects that are just awesome out there. One of the songs that I must say that stands out is for sure the title song of the record with super combination of guitar and synth melody in part of the song. The music is mostly fast skatepunk, but there is one slower song that touched my heart and that being Hopeless Romantic(no, it is not a cover) which is gentle punkrock song. I love this one.
Coral Springs from Holland are one of those bands that you fall in love with upon first listening, like I did when I listened and reviewed their new record for our zine. Read further on why and how that happened.
The spring is in the air and winter is dying, air is warm for a long afternoon walk and how it could be better then with some great melodic punkrock band. Coral Springs just released their new record with 12 songs of beautiful melodic punk/pop punk. The vocals on this record provided by the singer Jo are like angels choir to me, they take me to the land of fantasizing and make me believe in better tomorrow. The guitar melodies, harmonies, energy, choruses, everything on this record fits just perfectly and makes you smile and spin the record again and again and again. The best songs on this record in my opinion are I Lost Track, One Gesture and Ghost. Awesome!
Nadir are punk band from Queens, New York area and this is their self released record which I listened and reviewed for our zine.
Nadir is an interesting name, hopefully the guys were inspired by the Nadir tribe horde from David Gemmel´s novels for the name of the band. This trio features Robbie Swartwood of Off With Their Heads singing and playing guitar with Mike Foti on bass and and Arthur Bergevin on drums. The music of Nadir is punk with pretty depressive and darkened atmosphere or that is how I felt when I listened to the record. There are 8 songs on this record and the record as a whole has very nice rawer sounding production with great song structures mainly midtempo punkrock from the heart with two acoustic punk songs. For me, somehow Early Graves, Paper Trails and Born To Die Alone somehow worked the best but all of the songs are great raw, yet melodic punkrock with a lot of atmosphere and emotion. Good one.
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