90-ies skatepunk | KRAYKULLA-WEBZINE

Millencolin was one of the most important bands to the kids in our scene, my hometown and the region here in the 90-ies. I am very happy that they are still around and they are still up and kicking with the brand new album which I reviewed for this zine.

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Its been a couple of years since the last one, so I didn´t know what to expect with the new music. Millencolin are for me one of those bands that are better sounding on the albums than live, so I love their albums very much, but I don´t like their shows so much. The new album contains 12 nice songs of melodic 90-ies punkrock which takes me back to the time when I was a kid and all I wanted was to rock and hang out with my brothers and sisters. 25 years have passed, but I am still that kid in my heart. When the first single, the title song came out, I had the chorus of that song immediately in my ear and hummed it all day long and still do now. There is the quartet of awesome great songs on this record being the title song, Carry On, Nothing(my personal favorite), and Sour Days which are true punkrock anthems. The rest of the material is not so good as those mentioned above, but enough to make this a good album, one of those that grows better and better to your heart every listening. If you love your punkrock fast, without complicating, anthemic, grab this new album by this Swedish legends.

8/10

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The Siknotes are hailing from Grimsby, UK and were active in the early 2000-ies as a part of then very active UK skatepunk scene. In 2014.the band got together again and after an e.p. and whole bunch of drunk and high energetic shows recorded their new full length album to be release via Morning Wood Records and Bad Granola Records. I had a privilege to listen this little masterpiece of melodic punkrock and review it for this zine.

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The album contains 11 songs of non stop partying, energetic, high blasting full on melodic skatepunk. The music of The Siknotes is not unlike mid nineties punkrock bands for example Lagwagon, Nofx, Good Riddance and all the other bands of my youth, so this record really took me on the nostalgic rollercoaster and I am glad that someone still plays this awesome punkrock. I can only imagine how this songs sound live, because I never saw these guys play live yet, but I am going to correct that error. As for the lyrics, they are funny, drunk, party and feelgood punkrock with some serious lyric themes thrown in here and there for good measure. For me the absolute album highlights on this record are “Fade Away”, “Rick Flare” and “Wasted”. Excellent record!

9/10