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Quebec skatepunks Go Great Guns reveal title song for their forthcoming e.p.

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Quebec City skatepunk foursome Go Great Guns is back with a new EP titled “Roots”. The follow up to their 2017 debut S/T album comes out March 10th via Thousand Islands Records. You can check out the title track out now.

Roots is about rising up and refusing to be held silent any longer. It’s a punk rock ode to the power of unity and equality, two human values we desperately need at this particular time. Describes Jeff Girard of Go Great Guns.

For Roots, the band returns with their blend of melodic and skate punk, this time pouring in hardcore elements for a more refined sound.

Roots EP Tracklist:

Bite The Bullet

Moving Frames

Drop A Bombshell

Shadows And The Streets

Roots

About Go Great Guns:

Go Great Guns is a melodic punk act formed in 2015 in Quebec City, Canada. Their eponymous debut album was released in 2017 on Thousand Islands Records. In 2020, with their friend and sound engineer Pierre Lemire, they went back to the shed to record “Roots”, the new EP released in march 2021 on the same label. The band found the exact sound and style they were after: a faster, heavier punk rock, while still being harmony and melody-oriented.

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(review) The Lockdown – Waiting For Better Days (Effervescence Records)

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The Lockdown is no stranger to this zine, because I already wrote about the first single by this project that started in March 2020 during lockdown by none other than Fab, main honcho of Effervescence Records. Now, digital version of the full length record is out, vinyl version will be out in March.

What do we have here? 11 song of really beautiful melodic punk rock, bordering between nineties melodic punk I grew up on and love so much, also having some pop punk influences in the song structures. My personal favorites on this record are The Good Old Times, a bit calmer Old Memories, Different People with such great vocal and backing vocal harmonies that continue throughout the whole record, also Never Forget which is song I listened to over and over again, like the title song with fast and nice, melancholic vibe. Lyrics are personal and I can totally relate to most of the songs, and that is just what I need in my punk rock and hardcore records that I listen to. That is why I love this genre of punk so much. So, if you love your punk rock melodic and from the heart, go check out this one. I know I love it!

https://effervescencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-better-days

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(review) Ship Tieves/Reconciler – Split ( A-F Records)

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The good people of A-F Records gave us this great new small split between Ship Thieves(Hot Water Music) and Reconciler(ex Less Than Jake, Gunmoll). This is a very small single containing one new song from each band. Ship Thieves and their song Nothing Now is really great piece of melancholic melodic punk rock, Southern style, offering melody, kinda sadness and great singing and hum along parts which I love very much having listened to it couple of times in a row. Reconciler sounds a bit similar, having beautiful vocals, great song and such sweet chorus to the song. I really enjoyed both songs on this epic little release.

https://shipthieves.bandcamp.com/album/split