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(review) BATES MOTEL/STONE LEEK-6613 Miles

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Bates Motel were already featured on the pages of the zine with Spaniards making their grand vision of technical skatepunk, fast, emotional and fantastic at the same time. Their two songs on this split release are great, but Distorted Reality is a bit more my favorite than Believe In Something. I must admit that I have never heard of Stone Leek prior to this release and they are coming from Japan. They are not so melancholic like Bates Motel, rather more faster, straightforward old school hardcore melodic skatepunk. The vocals are not cheesy but strong and powerful with nice backing vox harmonies behind. Blast and Who Knew are two songs representing their side, I love both of them with latter being a bit more favorite of mine. Nice release.

8/10

 

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(record review)3upFront-Puppets & Psychiatrists(317Records)

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I listened and reviewed the new 3upFront record for our zine. These guys have been around playing since 1998.

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Couple of years later, hehe here is the new full length record. Hailing from Santa Cruz, California, these guys are playing melodic skatepunk and this 19 songs are not unlike Good Riddance, especially in one of my favorite songs on this record, This Time, song with great drive and nice melodic anthemic chorus, vocals also remind me of Russ Rankin in this song. Besides punk there are reggae influences in That Song, but I don˙t know, this song and half of other songs on this record did not work well with my ear. I love straightforward punk songs like Fantasia or Whoa Bundy, as you can see there is a lot of humour and auto irony in the lyrics to the songs, many varied parts in the music that show these guys definitely can play, but in my opinion something is just missing in this record to be great one. 7/10

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/3upFrontmusic/

Bandcamp: https://3upfront.bandcamp.com/album/puppets-psychiatrists