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(record review)The Rumjacks-Saints Preserve Us!

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The Rumjacks recently released their new, fourth album and I listened and reviewed the album for our zine. Read on!

2018 - Saints Preserve Us!

I didn´t know for this band until 2016.and their show at Punk Rock Holiday, which made me listen to the albums and keep an eye and ear open for this band. Usually, I am not too keen for all the celtic punk and folk punk bands out there, but this album is just somehow made for my ears. These Australians  deliver mighty set with 12 songs of celtic folk punkrock with a lot of melody, sing along choruses, fun and emotion. There are reggae and ska influences in Fare Evader, the title track and A Dozen Good Reasons To Weep which is one of my favorite songs on this record. Also, I love The Foreman O´Rourke with the guest performance by Paul McKenzie of The Real McKenzies delivering nice vocal guest lines. This is a very good album which even non celtic folk punkrock fans like me dig good.

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/TheRumjacks/

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(record review)Call It A Day-Mind The Gap(Thousand Islands Records)

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Thousand Islands Records continues its triumphant crusade in bringing us awesome bands and fantastic records, for all of us who like our punk fast and melodic. This, time we listened and reviewed the new Call It A Day record.

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This band comes from Strasbourg, France and, you guessed it, they play awesome melodic punk hardcore or skatepunk if you will. The record contains three songs. For Your Safety is for me the best of the three songs, but Empty Promises is close, both being fast skatepunk with excellent melodies and awesome main vocals backed by nicely done backing vocal harmonies, topped off with great guitar hooks and song structures. The third song, named Valium is everything else but tranquilizer, being awesome energetic bomb to complete this little record with some screamed vocals thrown in to interact with the melodic voice and the combination is great. I love every single minute of this record and I really can˙t wait for the full length.

8,5/10

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/callitadaypunk/

Follow the label on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thousandislandsrecords/

Bandcamp: https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mind-the-gap

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(record review)3upFront-Puppets & Psychiatrists(317Records)

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I listened and reviewed the new 3upFront record for our zine. These guys have been around playing since 1998.

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Couple of years later, hehe here is the new full length record. Hailing from Santa Cruz, California, these guys are playing melodic skatepunk and this 19 songs are not unlike Good Riddance, especially in one of my favorite songs on this record, This Time, song with great drive and nice melodic anthemic chorus, vocals also remind me of Russ Rankin in this song. Besides punk there are reggae influences in That Song, but I don˙t know, this song and half of other songs on this record did not work well with my ear. I love straightforward punk songs like Fantasia or Whoa Bundy, as you can see there is a lot of humour and auto irony in the lyrics to the songs, many varied parts in the music that show these guys definitely can play, but in my opinion something is just missing in this record to be great one. 7/10

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/3upFrontmusic/

Bandcamp: https://3upfront.bandcamp.com/album/puppets-psychiatrists