Canadian purveyors of melodic hardcore Counterparts are back with new album out with Pure Noise Records. There are 10 new songs on this record with Love Me being short kind of intro before Wings of Nightmares takes us into world of modern melodic hardcore with grooves changing place with fast outbursts and screaming vocals evolve into melodic catchy shouting made for jumping along at gigs. Paradise and Plague is a song they chose to make video for, and I love the dark vibe and hopeless atmosphere it makes in my mind while listening. The overall vibe of this album for me is somehow melancholic and sad, so I love it of course haha. The Hands That Used To Hold Me and the title track are for sure to become your favorites being for me the highlights of the album. This is modern melodic hardcore par excellence.
Fat Wreck Chords just released brand new Live In A Dive series album and this time it was Face To Face who recorded their live set. California melodic punk veterans recorded live and explosive greatest hits set similar to the one I watched them play at Punk Rock Holiday in 2017. This album captured all the melodic energy mixed with primal rawness of punkrock which Face To Face deliver for decades now. I love that all the live feel and talk interaction with crowd is recorded here and I still get goosebumps when I hear fans singing the songs almost louder than band plays. With hits like Bent but not broke, I won˙t say I`m sorry, Disappointed and legendary Disconnected you get more than you bargained for.
Ariel View released their new album for Epitaph Records. This band from South California plays interesting melodic indie mixed with pop and punkrock giving their music interesting, fresh and lovely approach. I swear that I can even hear some doo wop old school influences in some songs, like I hear for example in Pretty Flowers, one of my favorites on this album. There are 11 beautiful songs featured on this record and this band is living proof that being hard and tough is not everything in todays music scene. You can also be creative, intense, emotional, melodic and dreamy like these songs are without sacrificing beauty for brutality. Songs like Gone, New York or the title track are sure going to make you fan of this band like they worked on me. If you love music like this, go get this one.
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