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(record review)THE LONGSHOT-“Love is for losers”

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I listened to the debut e.p. by THE LONGSHOT couple of weeks ago and I wasn´t impressed much with what I heard.

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Now it is time for their debut full length album and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.  For those of you who don´t know it yet, The Longshot is the new band fronted by Billie Joe Armstrong, known as frontman of some little pop punk band called Green Day. Sounds familiar, eh? Joke. The album contains eleven songs of melodic punkrock bordering with a lot of poppier side of punkrock. Don´t get me wrong, the songs are pure quality and production wise the album sounds brilliant, but somehow it just didn´t work with me upon neither first nor second listening. It was just too mellow and too weak songs to like it. The last Green Day record was much stronger compared to this material, I know those are not the same bands and all that, but the songs on this album are just somehow too similar one to another. There are couple of okay tracks like for example “Kill your friends” or “Goodbye to romance” but just not enough compared to the boring ones. If you are a fan of Green Day or Billie Joe´s work you´ll dig this one. If not, do not bother.

5/10

Get the album https://fanlink.to/loveisforlosers

Follow the band https://www.instagram.com/longshot/ + https://www.facebook.com/thelongshoto…

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(record review)PRINCIP-“Fuck your empire/Culture of nothing”(Life As A Dream Records)

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Princip is a one man band playing wicked political hardcore punk with a crusty edge and I listened and reviewed both the e.p-s for this webzine. Both records came on Damjan´s label Life As A Dream Records, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for more awesome releases!

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Princip was I guess named after Gavrilo Princip, the guy who shot and killed Austro Hungarian crown prince in 1914.. in Sarajevo and thus started the World war I. Of course, the war was imminent, this was only the spark which set the fire alight. The music of PRINCIP is in fact very grim and raw hardcore punk, sometimes chaotic, with politically engaged lyrics against corporate wars, oppression and war. “Fuck your empire” contains 4 songs and it is a bit more raw and chaotic than “Culture of nothing”. The latter contains also 4 songs but is less raw in my opinion and the songs are better on that one. My personal favourite from that record is “Fucking killing”. Both e.p-s are great and I wish Damjan the best of luck with his releases and he´s got support from this webzine as far as we are concerned.

7,5/10

Bandcamp(both ep-s but also check out other releases):

https://lifeasadreamrecords.bandcamp.com/album/culture-of-nothing-ep

https://lifeasadreamrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-your-empire-ep

Life As A Dream Records Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/laadrecords

 

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(record review)JADED-“Stvor”

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Jaded is hardcore band from Zagreb, Croatia. I once saw them play live here in my hometown at Prostor and they were quite good band. I listened to one album that they did in 2014. and then there was no sign of them for some time.

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Now this is their new e.p. and it contains three songs of fast paced anguished hardcore done in an emotional with heart and soul, but also there are nice political underlines in the lyrics of the songs. The lyrics are in Croatian language, they are pretty minimalistic, short but every song hits in the head just right and I think that was how the guys in the band imagined it should be. The music is darkened hardcore, sometimes almost nervous with melodic and sometimes very catchy guitar hooks and the vocals are screamed but also melodic in some parts. This is good hardcore, so go support the guys, get their music, write them something, that they know you listened to their stuff and care for their messages, it means a lot to every one who does music or does something in this scene. Croatian scene is better than ever nowadays.

8/10

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

Bandcamp: https://jadedhc.bandcamp.com/album/stvor