Wow! What a nice surprise with two bands that were already featured on the pages of our zine. afeyearslater from Hungary, deliver two songs in their trademark fast and furious melodic hardcore punk with superb melodic vocals and harsh but melodic riffs topped with fast drumming.
Trophy Jump from Zagreb, Croatia deliver a bit calmer song with Glass Bell, melodic punkrock song with beautiful lyrics that I can certainly relate to a lot. Second song called Bazooka Blaze has a weird yet interesting sound of trumpet which makes it kinda unusual but cool. Both cool bands, both cool music, so go listen and support your scene.
The Bombpops were always for me a band that was better sounding live than on their releases. Well, the new album is a candy for your listening pleasure. I can safely say that it is their best record to date, with so many superb melodies, anthemic singalong choruses. beautiful harmonies of the dual vocals. Jen and Poli do such fine job with interplaying their voices thus creating soundscape that makes you smile and brights up your day. Of all the 12 songs my favorites are hard to pick, but I will try. They are: Double Arrows Down, Sad To Me, In The Doghouse. This is one of the better albums that came out in this fucked up and sad year.
Part Time Killer are from north, precisely Finland and play the style of punkrock that I love the most. That means melodic skatepunk with both legs firmly in the nineties and all those old school Fat and Epitaph influenced bands. This record contains 12 songs with lyrics bordering on the fine line between personal and political and I as a fan, also as hardcore kid can relate to. Vocals are superb, hard yet melodic and backing vocal harmonies are heavenly. The songs are catchy, varied and I love every single minute of this album making it one of my favorite listens in the last two weeks or so. Personal favorites: Giving Up!, Welfare State, Insane And Free.
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