Texas melodic punks Bowling For Soup released recently their new record and it is for sure one of the candidates for melodic punk record of the year 2022! This one contains 15 songs of such sweet melodies, anthemic songs, humor, a bit of melancholy, fun and it will make your heart jump from joy and smile on your face. This one is a keeper! Bowling For Soup deal with different themes such as getting old in Getting Old Sucks(But Everybody´s Doing It), wanting to be Brad Pitt, worshipping Alexa Bliss(also my favorite girl in wrestling!), hey the album also has a pause for peeing before listening to the rest of the album. I never saw these guys perform live, but I can bet their shows are fun as hell. One of my favorites is also The Best We Can, being a bit more of an acoustic song but having lyrics I can totally relate to. After All These Beers is also one of my personal highlights but this one as a whole is a keeper, so go check this one out, this is an instant classic!
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New Pop Punk Single & Music Video by Atlas for Home!
In the line of mid-2000s pop-punk bands (Seaway, Super American & Neck Deep…), Atlas for Home is a French band distributed by the label KROD Records/Red Toad Music. After two EPs (“More Than a Year” in 2014 and “Late Bloomer” in 2018) and numerous dates in Europe alongside bands such as State Champs, Four Year Strong or Judah & the Lion, the band is back in 2022 with OMG, second single off their upcoming EP.
This is the second single of the “new Atlas for Home” – now composed of Marion Gualandi & Valentin Guérin – co-produced by Dory-Loup Venta (mirabelle.) and mixed/mastered by Cory Bergeron (Locket).
In the continuity of their previous single “Keep Going” released earlier this year, “OMG” is a pop-punk track in the true sense of the word: 4 min of dynamic and catchy power chords, on a vocal line not unlike The Starting Line & Taking Back Sunday. A song that calls for the liberation of the word around personal well-being while underlining the difficulty of opening up fully to the world.
100% self-produced, the video for “OMG” features a young girl on the verge of dropping everything. The call of a friend will upset her day and bring her little by little to a total release, mixing road trip between friends and externalization of her feelings. It is a true emancipation towards happiness that the group puts in image. It’s the first time that the band goes behind the camera.
Atlas for Home on OMG:
“OMG is a title that came to us very quickly and spontaneously, as much the melody, the instrumental or the lyrics. Largely inspired by a close friend of ours who has been through a complicated situation at work, between depression & burn out, we wanted to write her a positive song to listen to when a relapse is coming. A little “you can always count on us and know that you are never alone”.”
(review) HITCH & Go – A Place That Doesn’t Exist (People of Punk Rock)
Hitch & Go from Quebec City have been around since 2012 but their line-up solidified in 2015 and this is their brand new full length opus out with People of Punk Rock. This one contains eleven songs and what immediately came to mind when first song started is, gods how this one rocks. It is totally fast and melodic skate punk like it was done in the nineties and having some pop punk in some song structures thrown in for good measure here and there. Sheep In Wolf´s Clothing hits you in the head with fast skate punk and beautiful vocal melody, bridge that transforms into anthemic and bombastic chorus just made for singing along at gigs or whole day when you think that nobody hears you, or you just don´t care if they hear or not. Vocals are strong and melodic with nice backing harmonies and remind me of Tony Sly a bit for couple of moments in almost every song. But, they sometimes transform into screamed parts and they fit perfectly in some hooks and grooves in song parts. Lyrics deal with every day themes, but they are nicely and great written. There is also special appearance of Scott Sellers in awesome If I Fall. My other favorites are Find Yourself and A Place That Doesn´t Exist. This record is a hundred percent proof that skate punk is alive and well like it was when I was growing up.

