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(record review)CITY KIDS FEEL THE BEAT-Cheeky Heart(Uncle M/Cargo Records)

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German punkrock band City Kids Feel The Beat are releasing their debut album via Uncle M and Cargo Records, so it was about time for me to listen to the album and review it for this zine.

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Hailing from Ulm, these guys have been working hard on their songs and playing live gigs to earn the love and reputation among the fans of the genre and the result is this debut full length album. The record contains 9 songs of melodic punkrock anthems. The music this band plays is a mixture of pop punk happiness and melodic punkrock with a lot of emotions behind it. There are some faster skatepunk influences in the title track which is for me one of the best songs on the album. I also love Rewrite and Coming Home very much. There are a lot of similar bands coming out with their records every month, but these guys somehow managed to stay interesting and not making me say blargh another boring pop punk band with a nice package and inside there is nothing. Fortunately, that is not the case here. The vocals are nice, not poppy but punkrock, back vocal harmonies and anthemic choruses are sure thing to make this material utterly awesome when played live. Nice record!

8/10

Links:

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

Uncle M: https://www.facebook.com/uncle.m.music/

Cargo Records: https://www.facebook.com/CargoRecords/

 

 

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(record review)Fullcount-Part Of The Game

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I have already written countless times about the variety and how great Canadian skatepunk scene is, this time I listened and reviewed the new record by Fullcount which is distributed by the great Lockjaw Records.

FulCount - Name of The Game

Hailing from Quebec city area, these guys deliver a mighty and epic album of technical skatepunk. The album contains 12 songs mainly in neckbreaking speed, with beautiful melodic guitar hooks, anthemic singalong choruses and awesome musicianship. There are some guest appearances on the album from Étienne Dionne (Mute), Alexis Paré (Cardinals Pride) and Émilie Plamondon (50 Shades of Punk Rock).  For me, the best songs on this record are definitely The Motion and Discord & Treachery but the album as a whole is a must if you are a fan of melodic hardcore punk with technical prowess, heart, soul, balls and strength. Many who read this zine know how much I value great vocals in such bands and this band has it all, in your face melodic but strong main vocals and awesome done harmonies in the backing vocal lines. This is for sure one of the best albums of the genre this year!

9/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/fullcountpunkrock/

Follow Lockjaw Records on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/lockjawrecords/

Web: https://lockjawrecords.co.uk/

 

 

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(record review)WE ARE THE UNION-Self Care

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We Are The Union just released their fourth full length album and I listened and reviewed it for this zine.

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These guys are from Detroit, Michigan area and they have been around for a while, just launching their fourth full length record out.

The record contains 12 songs. The music is melodic punkrock with skapunk, pop punk and skatepunk parts in the song structures. From the skatepunk fast opening of Post-Ironic Sinkhole this band show us the listeners all the richness of their music style. A Better Home is a ska reggae punkrock anthem filled with brass instruments, punk aggressiveness and melody.

One of the best songs on the album for me is My Death, half a minute acoustic miniature, short but sweet, followed by The Way It Was, full blooded punkrock hymn, when I listen to this song it brings me back under Summer starry sky, having a blast with my friends and enjoying punkrock freedom! There is a guest performance on The Long Way by none other than Stacy Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop and she fit in with her voice nicely in this song. Not to discover just everything, you will have to listen to this album and check the other songs and discover your favorites for yourselves. All I can tell you that I had a blast listening to this one!

8,5/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/wearetheunion

Bandcamp:

https://wearetheunion.bandcamp.com/album/self-care