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(review) Booze & Glory-Hurricane

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At, last here is the new Booze & Glory album. After the tumult with recent years line-up change and taking another road with the band and music direction of the newer material, here is the first full length of the new line-up marking ten year anniversary of the band. Many fans turned their backs because the band no longer sounds the same as before, no longer playing skinhead streetpunk, but they rather chose a more melodic and many say they jumped on skatepunk bandwagon creating some sort of bastard child of streetpunk oi, pop punk and skatepunk. I like this album, but it has one problem, the first half of the album has much stronger and greater songs than the second half. Never Again, Live It Up, Ten Years, Ticking Bombs, The Guv´nor are fantastic and I really enjoyed the record until the second half. There are couple of songs that are not so strong there like Three Points, sorry but I think that many punk bands choose to write songs about West Ham United because it is hit to do so. Also, Elton John´s I´m Still Standing is rather boring cover, plus Goodbye and Darkest Nights that pass you by without notice, decent songs, but nothing special. My Heart Is Burning has superb guitar main melody riff, but there is no memorable anthemic chorus, so I always feel that this song is missing something. I know that guys in the band have special relationship to the song Too Soon, but I gave it a chance, believe me, ten times, but it is just too cheesy pop ballad for me. Much respect to the dead and I don´t mean to slander anyone, but this song just doesn´t work for me. So, this fifth album could have been superb record, but it is only decent one.

(record review) TRIPLE SUNDAE-Glow e.p.

Triple Sundae from London, UK recently released their new e.p. and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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This London based band released their fourth e.p. since their start in 2014. This is the final e.p. prior sailing to the restless album waters. This e.p. contains six songs. If I must compare their music to some bands, it would be Nothington, Menzingers, Gnarwolves and similar bands meaning very melodic mid tempo punkrock with very emotional vocals, awesome voice, catchy riffs with a lot of melody and harmony and excellent songwriting. The music is like I said, not very fast, but that doesn´t mean it is not energetic and makes you wanna dance, cry, jump around, sing along and it moves you and that is I think the main purpose, because I didn´t just forget this record after listening, no quite the contrary, it remained in my memory for a lot of time and made me wanna listen to it more, after all, I think we can safely say that it succeeded. Best songs for me: Everything´s cool, Glow.

8,5/10

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(record review)Burnt Tapes-Never Better(Lockjaw Records)

Burnt Tapes are melodic punk band from London, UK and they released their new debut album with Lockjaw Records. They call their music regret punk. I listened to the album and reviewed it for our zine to check out why. Read more here.

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The guys met in Athens, Greece and then migrated to London before they formed the band in 2014. This record contains 10 songs of melodic emotional punk with beautiful guitar work, awesome melody lines in verses and anthemic choruses ideal for hugging, imagining, crying, smiling, drinking or whatever you please. I love the dual harsh yet melodic sung vocals in the song structures. The songs are mainly in mid punkrock tempo but there are faster parts like for example in awesome Maybe I´m a Method Actor. If I must compare the music of Burnt Tapes to some band, I would say that they somehow reminded me of Austrian band Deadends which I love very much. The other thing I love about this band and record are the lyrics which are well thought and with interesting solutions and twists. Favorite songs: Don˙t Make Me Play Bocelli, Lost In Transit.

8,5/10

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