I am ashamed to admit it, but I never heard of PMX prior to this record, so silly me. Where was I to miss such great band? This Scottish skatepunk melodycore band is just awesome. So, all of these songs on this record are new to me, so I can review the record for this zine.
This is in fact a live studio album consisting of older songs and two new tracks. PMX play skatepunk, fast paced and energetic with a lot of hardcore and metal influences. These guys are technically superb on their instruments. PMX´s music is so special that you can at the same time sing along, mosh, pogo and get emotional an hug a sweaty kid standing in the pit next to you. For me the absolute highlights on this album are “Another Day”, “Clown” and “Who Are We To Pray”.
I really don´t know much about Drinking Boys And Girls Choir, apart from that they come from South Korea. Being from there, they have the honour to be the first Korean band featured on the pages of this zine.
This record contains 18 songs in about 43 minutes of time, and I personally think that this is too much for one record. With that, also the quality of the song differs from excellent melodic skatepunk tracks to some pop punk and K-pop boring songs. For me the absolute highlights of the album are “Red shift”, “On the street” and “National Police shit”. The production is okay but I would love some more power in the guitars but it is an okay punk record. The dual boy/girl vocals also nicely fit in and create an interplay in the song structures. But, being this long and with so many songs, this album just doesn´t manage to keep me concentrated and keep my attention for the duration. Okay album.
I always love the bands from Spain and other Spanish speaking areas because I always hear Spanish as beautiful language to sing on, making angry songs angrier, making melodic and emotional songs more emotional.
Free City is a band coming from Spain, Valladolid area and this is their brand new album. There are 13 tracks on this record and what I loved about this record is how this band easily fuses melodic and fast, energetic skatepunk with hardcore and some metal influences. The songs are very varied, there are also some keyboard undertones finishing “Tu Recuerdo” but there are also some straight punk hardcore songs like “Saiir corriendo” or “Huracan”. All of the lyrics are in Spanish and my knowledge doesn´t go far in that language so I am not able to tell what they are about, but I am sure these guys have their hearts in the right place. This is a good album, so support the guys and check out this record!
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