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(review) Freezing Cold-Glimmer(Salinas Records)

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Freezing Cold from New York are releasing their debut full length album with Salinas Records. This band comes from New York and they grew up there in diy music community of Big Apple, deciding that their band will bring their vision of music to the listeners who love to travel with soundscapes somewhere else. This album contains 11 songs of gentle, melodic emotional punkrock laced with pop punk and indie influences all throughout the song structures. This album, while listening to the music reminds me of walking through the crowded streets on a day under steel grey sky, yet somehow the Sun starts to shine and warms my face and everything is inded much, much better and I smile back again. I don` t know, this is how I feel while listening. The vocals are melodic, clean, nice, yet somehow fit in the songs perfectly, coupled with dissonant, melodic, almost at times etherial riffs and drums coupled with super bass lines. I usually like more faster, more hardcore approach to punk, but this one somehow suits me just perfectly. I love the emotions of Hand Wringing Hands, And The Morning Light, also Pill Box. Bittersweet album, somehow brings up depression, yet also heals depression.

http://www.salinasrecords.com/

(new single)Prey Drive release the single and the new video for “Pancakes”.

Prey Drive from UK just released their new single and video for “Pancakes”.

PREY DRIVE UK TOUR AUG 2018

This single is taken from the upcoming album “Once more with Feelings” available at the end of the year.

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

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

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