We Were Sharks are a six piece melodic punk band hailing from Ottawa, Canada and this is their new album that came out on mighty Victory Records.
The band formed in 2011.and since then they have gathered a lot of miles of relentless touring and playing their tunes to armies of fans. Since then they have released one album and one ep and this is their new full length album first for Victory. The album contains 10 tracks of melodic pop punk with energetic drumming, anthemic choruses and excellent harmonies and melodic guitar hooks. The lyrics deal with becoming alienated and disconnected from this hectic modern world, relationships, losing friendship and similar themes. Vocalist Randy Frobel sings excellently and the production of the album, courtesy of Silverstein guitarist Paul Marc Rousseau and producer Sam Guaiana, is just the way I love it. Naturally, I am the fan of the faster and more straightforward hardcorish songs so “Ashley” and “Late Bloomer”, the latter featuring guest vocals by Ollie Baxxter of Broadside are my favourites on this album. The guys are starting the new tour, so get the album, learn the lyrics, go to the gig and sing along.
Not Scientists are coming from France, Lyon area and are relatively new band in the scene but the members gathered enough experience in their older bands prior to deciding to form this one.
The new album contains 10 songs of epic and beautiful melodic pop punk played with heart and soul. It is hard to stay untouched by warm beauty of the first single “Perfect World” for which the guys made a video that you can watch below in this article. There are some emo influences that I heard in “Sky on Fire” and listening to that song made me think of warm Sun carressing my face and warm breeze hugging me in the meadow somewhere. I dont know if the guys from the band meant it, but this album has such positive and nice energy surrounding me when I listened to it, that I got goosebumps on my skin still while writing this review. “Orientation” is a bit faster song made for dancing through the room and humming along. But, it would not be right if I revealed just everything. You will just have to get and listen to this awesome album. If you are a fan of similar music, you wont regret it.
The underground scene gives us many opportunities to find out about new bands and meet new great friends. This time I reviewed the new record by The Lost End.
The Lost End are a quartet from Norman, Oklahoma, USA. The guys are playing post punk with some melodic punk and psychodelic influences. The album contains 7 songs and it is quite enjoyable music to listen to. For me personally the music of The Lost End sounds like a hybrid kid between The Menzingers and Joy Division and during the birth of this child the assistants were The Cure and Nick Cave. You can expect some darker tones of music in the song structures and some psychodelia overtones which I dont like very much but they are here few and far between so it is okay. The songs are not too long and not too short, and they are in no way boring as some bands of that subgenre are. These guys managed to keep a great bit of originality in their music and this album was fun to listen to. Top song: “Signs that guide”.
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