FLOWERLEAF are back and they are ready to start theirDreamerie journey! As a forerunner, they just released a brand new single along with a music video calledThe Storm.
The Storm is the first single from the Dreamerie – Chapter I: Time. It’s a song about self-confidence, fighting for what you want and fulfilling your destiny.
“It was an amazing experience recording The Storm because it gave FlowerLeaf a new dimension and it gives us lots of possibilities for what we can create in the future” – singer Vivs Takahashi says.
FlowerLeaf are preparing their next release in an ambitious project called “DREAMERIE”. The Dreamerie is the book of dreams, full of wishes, fantasies and nightmares. It contains the desires of the heart and the fears of the soul. Like every book, the Dreamerie is divided into chapters that will be released as a sequence of five short-albums within the next few years. Each chapter will bring its own theme and the first one will be called TIME. And Chapter II is already in the making.
F.O.D. from Belgium has a large fanbase in Europe and also the world, making them one of the jewels in the crown of European melodic punk scene. This new record contains 14 songs and what is more better, this is a concept album. The story revolves around two characters, an elderly woman called Annie who, together with Harrison, reflects on the past and tries to put the pieces of the puzzle that is her life back together. The story works out just fine through the song structured with fast more skatepunk songs but also more calmer mid tempo punkrock bordering with pop punk in some parts of the songs. Hans˙ vocals are better than ever with very harmonic backing vocals fitting perfectly to the songs. It reminds me a lot of best No Use For A Name opus. For me, the songs that I somehow love the most on this record are Fall In Line, Annie, Changes Rise. But, this is the album you should listen to as a whole, not song by song to understand it better. The anguish, the pain, the sweetness, the beauty of skatepunk and melodic punkrock.
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