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(record review)Prey Drive-“Tabula Rasa e.p.”(Krod Records)

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Prey Drive are hailing from Norwich, UK and they recently signed for the excellent label Krod Records. “Tabula Rasa” is their brand new e.p. and I am happy I reviewed it for this zine.

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The e.p. contains 4 songs filled with emotion, melody, beauty, sadness and hope. I love the feelings it intermingles in me while listening to the songs. “Brand new skin” made me hope for the new and better me, while I shed my current skin and walk to the horizon to the better future. Sad, but song full of hope. “More than magic” is a song for which the guys made a video you can watch below and it is more upbeat punky song with some nice guitar hooks, backing vocal harmonies and excellent song structure. The title track made me smile and made me sad at the same time as I caught myself daydreaming and whispering some distant poem from the corners of my brain. Mighty and emotional, this song remains in memory long afterwards listening. The last one “Like Animals” has a sad and a bit weird piano start and later evolves into melodic pop emo punk masterpiece of forlorn desire, wanting, happiness which also brings sadness to the likes of us, whose philosophy some men just can´t understand. Awesome e.p.

8/10

Follow Prey Drive on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/preydriveband/

Follow Krod Records on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/krodrecords/

 

 

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(record review)THE NIGHT-“War With The World”

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Eastern European scene is full of undiscovered bands and jewels from the neverending well of underground. THE NIGHT is one of such bands. Hailing from Odessa, Kiev they are conisting of the members of Kingpin and PowerPlay.

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This is, as I understand their debut release. The album is recorded in Odessa, Ukraine and mixed and mastered in USA. There are 6 tracks on this record. They love to say that their music is a mix of Misfits, Black Flag, Type O Negative and Alkaline Trio. The Night´s music is pretty wild and raw but also melodic as in the opener “Absolute Power”. There is a lot of Black Flag aggression and noisy arrogance in “Subhuman” for me the most noise influenced and harsh track on the record. You can almost feel the dust in “Pyramid”. The singer reminds me a lot of Cancerslug´s Alex Story and the whole song structures too especially in “Night on Earth”. The title track is a noisy, distorted ode to this world´s destruction and nihilism. The last song “Love in Sunnydale” is my favourite and best on this record. Check out these guys, they deserve it!

7,5/10

Follow on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/thenightua/

Bandcamp: https://thenightua.bandcamp.com/album/war-with-the-world

 
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(record review)The Playbook-“All I Am Is What You Left Behind”

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Australian scene never ceases to amaze me with so many excellent bands that I discover every time I listen to their music. The Playbook is one of such bands. This five members pop punkrock band from Melbourne released recently their new album and it was time for me to listen and review it for this webzine.

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The album contains 13 songs of ultramelodic melodic punkrock inspired a lot with pop punk and the album as a whole is very energetic and catchy for your listening pleasure if you are a fan of such music. From the awesome opener “Falling short”, accross the very nice and energetic “Sleep state” to a bit atmospheric and then fast “Regardless/Reach”, this album provides the listener with melody, great lyrics, harmonies, catchy guitar hooks and vocalist´s Laura´s voice sound awesome and strong. In all this record will do you just good on a late Tuesday afternoon to have some punk melodies to sweeten your day.

8,5/10

Support the band on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/theplaybookpoppunk/

Bandcamp: https://theplaybook.bandcamp.com/album/all-i-am-is-what-you-left-behind