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(record review)The Apparents-“The Face May Change e.p.”

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Apart from giving us The Highlander, William Wallace Braveheart, football and beautiful country for tourism, Scotland also gave us some great and legendary punk hardcore bands. Today we are talking about The Apparents and their e.p that I have listened and reviewed for this webzine.

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The Apparents were formed upon ashes of some of the members˙ former bands, as the guys say, to play the kind of punkrock they would like to listen to. The record contains five songs of epic and melodic punkrock. “Nothing Is Set In Stone” is an anthem celebrating life and telling us that we should live every day of our live to the fullest because life shouldn´t be taken for granted. It is an awesome pure punkrock song. “Reali-TV” is a street punk song dedicated to the people losing their touch with reality by watching the screen and becoming slaves to the tv and not living their lives anymore. I loved this one, it has that Business/Cock Sparrer vibe. “This Is Scotland” is the story about the independence and being free from slavery and it is angry but also melodic punk song. “Tory Boy” is a politically charged song and it reminds me why punk formed up in the first place, as a fist in the eye of the establishment. Ir has an awesome oi bridge in the middle of the song. “Fuck Religion” shouldn`t need explaining, it is a strong stance antiwar and antireligious dogma song and I love every second. This is a very strong record. Can˙t wait for the full length!

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(record review)THESE FAST TIMES-“On the other side of fear”(Thousand Islands Records)

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Formed in 2015.from the ashes of some bands that the members had before, These Fast Times from Montreal, Canada hit me in my chin with their new record scheduled to come out in cooperation with Thousand Islands Records. I am very happy because I listened and reviewed this new record for this webzine.

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The album contains 12 songs of melodic punk. After a kind of intro “Falling in love”, the fast paced “It`s not just me” hits the listener with simple, but effective song structure, chorus that you can hum to and a little snotty vocals but fortunately pleasent to the ear. There are also some pop punk and emo influences like for instance in “Ashley Madison”. These Fast Times own more to bands like Nothington or The Menzingers in their song structures than to Nofx or No Use For A Name. On the whole, this album wakes some kind of sadness in me, makes me melancholic and regretting some things I have done in my life, but the music and lyrics are also uplifting and full of hope for the future, like “The grind” or “That was easy”. This music is perfect for a Saturday sunny daydreaming and thinking about the future and the past and the things we reflect upon this world as human beings. Above all, this is great melodic punk with heart, soul, balls and emotions.

8,5/10

Links:

https://www.thesefasttimes.com/

https://www.facebook.com/thesefasttimes

https://twitter.com/thesefasttimes

https://www.instagram.com/thesefastti…

https://www.facebook.com/thousandislandsrecords/

https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/

 

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(record review)ANTI-LAM FRONT-“Tidlig Anti-Lam Front”(Big Day Records)

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Norway is besides being on of the most developed and beautiful European countries, known mostly by black metal but there are couple of bands that prove Norway also has awesome punk hardcore scene and Anti-Lam Front is one of them. This is their new record out on Big Day Records and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains 15 songs and boy, are they excellent! The music is fast, ultra melodic and energetic skatepunk hardcore. I loved every single second of this album! The vocals are a bit rough but melodic and combined with second more melodic voice and harmonies it gives the listener the ultimate melodic punk hardcore perfection! The music reminds me of best Lagwagon, NUFAN and Propagandhi moments mixed in one patchwork with a life of its own! Believe me, this stuff makes me wanna jump all over my living room and laugh and mosh and jump again and sing in Norwegian! Yes, the lyrics are in Norwegian and I don` t know what are they about, but this language is just awesome for such music because it adds a kind of drama in the songs that you can only find in melodic punk hardcore and which gives goosebumps to my skin! All of the songs are great but I can say that “Fineste Donald ” and “Sirkelmoralisme” are in my opinion somehow the best of the best on this record! Get this one! You won˙t regret it!

10/10

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

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