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(record review)BKD-Balkan Oi!
Time for another band from the northern parts of Croatia. BKD from Varaždin released their new e.p. and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.
This trio made of one girl and two boys have been around for a long time now and only in the recent years they gained the respect and fan base they deserved with their hard work throughout all of the years. After their great full length, now is the time for a three song brand new e.p. The lyrics are in Croatian language about working class, drinking, having fun and not carrying about politics and shit. The title song is a sarcastic ode about the typical redneck idiot and there is abundant of such shitheads in our country right now. Jebem ti radne subote(Fuck working Saturdays) is a theme known to all of us who ever worked on Saturday. Lepo je u raju(It is nice in Heaven, but…) is in my opinion the strongest and best song on this record with anthemic chorus and just made for singing along at the shows. The musicianship is tight, vocalist/bassist Ida sounds better when she sings melodic than when she shouts angry hehe. Cool record, only a bit more distortion on the guitar wouldn´t hurt, eh?
8/10
https://www.facebook.com/BKDoi/
(record review)PERKELE-Leaders Of Tommorow(Spirit of the Streets Records)
Perkele are back with a new album out with Spirit of the Streets and I listened and reviewed the new record for our zine.
The Swedes surprised not only me, but many old fans with the single and the video they released prior to the record called One Day. The chorus of the song is good, but I had to re-check the line-up to see if it is the same guys playing. It is not generally bad when band changes style and evolves in its existence, but some bands just don`t fit into that category and Perkele are definitely one of them. They gained a lot of fans during the years with their melodic, but streetsmart version of punk. This new album contains 10 songs, but the sound of the band is now just to metalic. Yes, the early recordings where also metalized, but this new sound just doesn`t suits me as a listener. The guitar solos are too often and too many, the galloping metal riffs are also too often and I wondered if it is Iron Maiden or Perkele apart from the trademark vocals. Not all is black, there are some awesome songs on the record like Miss U or Stand By You, but the other bad songs like the cheesy ballad Mistakes and others are just too many to make this album a keeper. Listen to yourself and decide I gave it a spin for many times and still it`s bad.
4/10
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