Meadows are hailing from USA and this is their new record with Facedown Records who continue to give to the scene amazing releases. This record contains 13 songs divided in three parts telling story of love, betrayal, anguish, hope and sorrow among others. The music of Meadows can be described as what we called in the nineties new school hardcore with melodic hardcore punk influences. Although there are couple of excursions into faster hardcore punk approach, the songs are slower in general, with stop and go parts, lost of atmospheric almost post hardcore guitar riffs and vocals that are superb and fit perfectly to the vibe of the songs, being shouted, screamed and at times sung clean. My personal favorites are The Flood, The Dove, The Embrace, those three. But, I recommend you to listen to the album as a whole and only then you will get the real picture of the magnitude of this opus.
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Post hardcore Hoi – Poi Farplane Wind released new single!
Currently split between Copenhagen, Thessaloniki and Stony Brook -New York, Hoi-Poi emerge from the murky waters of the early COVID era with a brand new two-part single, entitled “Uncle Boonmee”.
Sounding as dark and inauspicious as ever, the band unravel the tumult of being locked down, separated and disjointed through unrelentingly heavy and intense riffage. The technicality and experimentation of the material on “Sain’t Adorable” reaches a new high in the 4 minutes & 23 seconds of the single’s total runtime, split between the titular “Uncle Boonmee”and accompanying track, “Tannin”. Lyrically, “Uncle Boonmee” loosely draws inspiration from the 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”: through the vicious cycle of life in lockdown and quarantine, a constant swing between hope and despondency, one is able to “recall their past lives”–since they have all started to seem identical. “Tannin” on the other hand, is a disparate prayer, a cry of desperation, heavily influenced by the Book of Job (Chapter 7). The single was recorded, mixed and mastered by Pantelis Benosat True North Sound Artworks in Thessaloniki, during the band’s limited time together over the first few months of 2021, with some parts also recorded at Crisp Studio in Copenhagen by Christian Hjort Jakobsen. It is a standalone offering of material written immediately after the release of the band’s 2020 full-length album “Sain’t Adorable”.
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Dead Dog Summer: Croatian post-hardcore trio released new song – A Place Of Someday!
Croatian Dead Dog Summer is a post-hardcore band from Cakovec formed in late 2020 and “A Place Of Someday” is their second single from the upcoming album that is planned to be released in spring of 2022 as digital and vinyl.
Band was formed last year but the whole idea of new songs and new band was in their heads for a long time, as members of the band were active in the scene during first decade of the 00-ies playing in bands like Nikad, The Farewell Reason, Senata Fox, Implicite and many others. Band members are: Igor Bistrovic (guitars/vocals), Kreso Zerjav (bass, vocals) and Boris Strahija (drums).
“A Place Of Someday is a song about procrastination, this band was something I procrastinate for a long time, I was writing music, recording, playing music for a long time in my home studio and was always thinking, when I do that, then I will play in a band, I will form a band when I finish that etc. So A Place Of Someday is a place where you will never be if you don’ t start today and start by your self, nobody will do nothing for you, nobody will come and save you so that is why we started this band during the pandemic and lockdown in Croatia.” says Igor Bistrovic.
When we try to describe the music of Dead Dog Summer it would be easiest to say it is some kind of hardcore that was played in late 90-ies (they used to call it emo or screamo those days). Their sound is a combination of sparkly and heavy guitars, screaming and singing vocals and tight performance of rhythm section.
A Place Of Someday is available now on all streaming services.
Dead Dog Summer on social media: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/deaddogsummer) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/deaddogsummer/)
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