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(record review)MAD CADDIES-“Punk Rocksteady”(Fat Wreck Chords)

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Mad Caddies dropped their new album out on Fat Wreck Chords just in time for all those summer shows and festivals following and I am definitely gonna see them live soon in a month and a half and it is going to be awesome. In the meantime I listened and reviewed their new record for this webzine.

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As you might have heard this is the album filled with covers of the bands that influenced Mad Caddies and which somehow had an effect on them as a band and as people. But, it is done in Mad Caddies way, meaning reggae and ska mixed with punkrock. As it usually goes, some songs are better, some are not so good, it depends on the listener´s personal point of view. In my opinion the best songs for me on this record are “She´s Gone(NOFX)” being a haunting reggae version of the original and featuring excellent back vocals by Aimee of The Interrupters, then “AM(Tony Sly)”, because it really resembles the original meaning of the song and adds to it the new vibe  and “Some Kind of Hate(Misfits) having a 50´s vibe that is what makes the original so special but also adding the new originality to the song. Also “Alien 8(Lagwagon)” is nice too. Those are my four favourites and that doesn´t mean that the other songs sre not good. Check it out because this is not the simple covers album, it is much more because Mad Caddies added a lot of originality to these songs and I love this album for that.

8/10

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(record review)KOSEAKASO-“Squaloparco”

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Italy has a great hardcore punk scene and from Piedmont comes Koseakaso, melodic hardcore band and I listened their new release and reviewed it for this webzine.

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I love melodic punk, melodic hardcore and skatepunk, but in the end isn´t it all punkrock? This record contains 9 songs of melodic hardcore punk with a strong bow to the 90-ies punkrock scene, especially from California, but one can hear and a bit of modern technical stuff, like for example the metallish part in “Ricominciare”. Also, there are some ska song structures like in “La spinta”. All of the lyrics are in Italian language and I read them while listening to the album, but my knowledge of Italian is just not so good that I could understand everything what is being sung. I learned to love punkrock sung in Italian by listening to the mighty Derozer, Kalashnikov and Four Flying Dicks to name just a few excellent Italian punk bands that I have listened to in the last twenty years. Italian is so melodic language and in my opinion fits perfectly into melodic punk music. One of the songs I also loved on this record is “Citalopram” having an excellent melody just made to please my ears. In the end, I my advice to you is, get this album, give it a spin and discover this wonderful band!

8/10

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

Bandcamp: https://koseakaso.bandcamp.com/album/squaloparco

 

 

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(record review)AVAS-“Avas”

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UK hardcore punk scene was always awesome, filled with excellent bands and Manchester´s AVAS are one of them. This is their new e.p. and I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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Formed in 2010., Avas released two albums and two ep-s, played live a lot of times and shared stages with H2O, SNFU, Death Before Dishonor and many more. This record contains four songs of high explosive energetic hardcore. “Think” is a pure hardcore song with gang backing vocals, positive attitude and more similar in my opinion to NYHC school than to European hardcore school. “Friendzone” is punkrock song with shouting back vocals just made for jumping and shouting at the gig and it reminded me a lot of Sick Of It All punkier anthems. “You and I” is another hardcore fast bomb in the old school youth crew way, an ode to friendship, scene and hardcore which reminded me when I was a kid like 20 or 25 years ago, when I went out with my hardcore crew and we felt invincible band of brothers. The best song on this record for me is ” Open Heart” which is the most melodic song on the record with beautiful sung vocals, great anthem and the whole song somehow reminded me of Endpoint. You might notice that I compare the bands a lot, but this in no way means that Avas are clones of those bands or stuff like that. Quite the contrary, this is an awesome hardcore e.p. which made my day and filled me with pure hardcore energy!

8/10

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avaspma/

Bandcamp: https://avas.bandcamp.com/album/avas