It is always nice to hear one more band from your home country scene that you didn’t listen to before. Ochi are from Rijeka, Croatia and this is their new EP. This EP contains kind of cheerful intro turning into ominous and eerie melody with children playing and screaming and car door opening, reminding me of something sinister. Then, four songs connect into childhood stories like the title of the record says. Besides already published single ‘Dječak od vatre’ which is a mixture of post hardcore and post punk, heavy in some parts, melodic in others, three more songs deliver punch to your gut with their heaviness, darkness, but also melancholy in a way. One of my personal favorites is the title song, with that harshness mixed with atmospheric post punk parts and vocals which transform from melodic clean singing to more screamed parts and also whispering and spoken world. Guitar parts sound a bit otherworldly, taking you into some other soundscape. ‘Apnea’ is a bit grungy influenced song, at least I hear it like that in chorus which is melodic with pop sensitivity behind the heaviness. I think, this one is besides the aforementioned single the darkest song on the record. Lyrics are in Croatian, but deal with themes that are a bit darker and introspective and less happy and full of hope, quite the contrary, the whole vibe of this EP is pretty darkened and I love it for that. Have a listen and check it out! Support your scene!
Kevlar Bikini, zagrebački hardcore trio, objavio je spot za pjesmu ‘Flirting With Nihilism’, osmi singl s najnovijeg albuma ‘OPT-OUTism’. Video je snimljen na rubnim područjima Zagreba (rubnim u svakom smislu!), a sve od režije i snimanja do montaže obavio je sam bend.
Spot vizualno prati hipnotički ugođaj pjesme, a ne nedostaje ni psihodeličnih prizora. Ovo je, podsjetimo, osmi video uradak s albuma ‘OPT-OUTism’ – bend se opasno približava čarobnoj brojci od 10, po jedan za svaku pjesmu s albuma. No i prije nego što dovrše ovu video-sagu, momci kreću dalje. Naime, ulaze u studio kako bi snimili novi, peti album!
Time for a bit of melodic hardcore to grace the pages of this webzine. Fucked Up are hailing from Ontario, Canada and they recently released their new album containing ten songs. Although the name already says it, this is hardcore par excellence. Fucked Up play their vision of melodic hardcore punk with many stop and go change of tempo, modern hooks and melodies but remaining with both feet solid in punk rock roots rather than metallic hardcore that more and more takes over the scene these days. This vision of hardcore is harsh in vocals, but also melodic and up tempo and sometimes made me fell good and filled me with energy listening to this one. Songs like ‘I Think I Might Be Weird’, ‘Nothing’s Immortal’ or ‘One Day’ won me over with their humor, real life lyrics to which you can relate, auto irony of sorts and above all great songwriting. This is a good band and good record.
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