Off The Mark released their first album after the five years hiatus on mighty No Affiliation Records, so I was happy to listen to and review the record for this webzine.

This band comes from Arizona and plays the kind of melodic punkrock with pop punk and skatepunk influences like it was played in the 90-ies when I was a kid.  The album contains 10 songs of emotional, sometime humorous and autoironic but most of all awesome punkrock with heart and soul. When the first song “The Answer” started, I was instantly struck with the great vocals and melodies. I just couldn`t help myself and I know that it is not similar, not one bit but some songs like for example “When You Say” reminded me of later era Blitzkid vocally and in the song structure. I repeat, this is only my opinion and the music that Off The Mark plays has absolutely thematically no relation to Blitzkid. Most of the songs on this record are more pop punk oriented and mid tempo punkrock rythm graces most of the song structures. There are a lot of emotions behind the lyrics and somehow this record goes fine with me. When I was younger I just couldn˙t swallow such bands, but now, as I am older but certainly not wiser, somehow I evolved the taste for these type of punkrock bands. Good album! Top songs: “On My Own” and “Permanent Vacation”.

7/10

Links

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/offthemarkaz/

Follow the label on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/noaffiliationrecords/

Bandcamp: https://noaffiliationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aging-disgracefully