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(review) Lovecraft-Dark Ages(PCT Musique)

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PCT Musique, a label from Montreal, Canada always surprises me with their great releases. How do they find all those excellent bands?

This time, it is Lovecraft from south west of France, formed in 2017. How not to listen to punk band which carries the name of my favorite horror writer and one of my all time favorites for reading? I expected something melodic, yet dark and I got it. There is kinda mistic feeling in the music of these guys. This record offers ten songs of melodic punkrock, with English speaking lyrics, at times noisy, at times poppy and at times very, very atmospheric. I love Last Day Of My Youth, showing straightforward punkrock, and then turning into something darker with that wicked and catchy guitar melody of the title track which is absolutely one of my highlights of this record. There are no lyrics enclosed but as I understand, they are personal and inspired by the nineties, nature, love and similar themes. Sometimes the songs of this album make me sad, but that is okay. This is a very strong debut album.

8/10

https://pctmusique.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ages

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(review) Jodie Faster-Blame Yourself

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Wow! This is the only thing that I can say after listening to new Jodie Faster record. My friend Karlo told me last Summer about these guys, but somehow they went  under my radar until now. Jodie Faster are from Lille, France and this new release contains 17 songs. The music of Jodie Faster is old school fast hardcore with screaming shouting vocals and fast drumming, coupled with great hardcore songs with some melodic catchy parts here and there. Add to that great lyrics and you get really super band and I can only imagine how this band sounds live, pure fuckin hardcore energy to feed on. Songs like Punk Police, Gloucester`s Finest and Your Gods=Outta My Way, also No Gain Just Pain are my personal favorites. This is fast hardcore old school the way I love it.

10/10

https://jodiefaster.bandcamp.com/album/blame-yourself

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(review) NOFUTAL-Zero De Conduite

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NOFUTAL are punk band from Bastia, France and this is their new record. This new one contains 8 songs. The music of NOFUTAL can be described as melodic punk with lyrics and song titles in French so I don`t really understand what they are about, but no matter, the music is nice, melodies are sweet with great vocalist and really nicely done backing vocal harmonies like for example in Divers Avaries sounding even a bit Nofx like. There are also some pop punk influences to the songs like La Faute A La Manette, another beautiful song. Vroum-Vroum is another highlight, powerhouse of fast skatepunk hardcore that has it all, melody, drama and intensity. Not to discover just all forya, I will tell you to go listen and discover this album and this fine band, you will not regret it!