Brightr and H_ngm_n have teamed up to make an incredible split EP, recorded during lockdown and celebrating a friendship years in the making. Featuring goosebump-inducing acoustic tracks from each artist as well as a cover of one another’s songs.
Each limited edition pre-order CD will feature one of the Polaroid photos as seen on the EP cover art.
ABOUT THE RELEASE AND ARTISTS
Brightr (Laurie) on the how the split came together:
We’ve been talking about doing a split for a while, then lockdown
came and it seemed ideal for a bit of DIY creativity. It’s all
come together pretty quickly which has been brilliant. In my view
H_ngm_n are one of the most essential UK bands around at the moment,
when they’re full strength (with James battering the skins) it’s
incredible. However, solo, the songs take on an awesome different
force altogether and having seen Chris do it on so many nights
I’ve felt for a while it needed to be recorded and out there for
all to hear.
(Chris from) H_ngm_n on covering one of each other’s songs:
I’ve been trying to learn a bunch of Brightr songs throughout the
last few months (no chance I could learn the guitar parts!) but
yeah, touring together loads, I know the songs really well and so it
just made sense. It’s really strange hearing someone else cover
your song, but when Laurie sent over his version of
“Matchsticks” it was really humbling, and just kinda makes you
grateful for the good friends that can come out of playing music
together. Well excited for people to hear both covers!
Hangtime are hailing from Toronto, Canada and their new e.p. is for sure one of the contenders for best melodic punk record of this fucked up shitty gig and festival free year. The production is awesome, fantastic guitars with catchy yet simple riffs just make you smile upon listening and that smile doesn´t come off your face all through the day long after you finished listening to the record for the fifth time in the row. Songs like Too Many Days, My Only One or my personal favorite Start All Over don´t offer anything revolutionary new or special, but this is a lesson how you can do quality and energetic sing along pop punk/melodic punkrock without too much philosophy, just sweet vocals, great backing vocal harmonies and superb songwriting. I heartily recommend this one to all of you who love your punkrock driving, melodic, with personal lyrics that anyone can relate to and sing along with for days. Fantastic!
Remember Elm Tree Circle? We already featured this band from Germany on the pages of this zine. Well they released new album with Krod Records and it was about time that I have a listen and try to write a review for this zine.
This new album contains 10 songs and the music style is in the same vein as before, being a fine mixture of emotional pop punk/punk rock with some indie and even a bit noise influences in the songwriting. The lyrics are poetic and personal and the music speaks for itself. What? Nice melodies, harmonies and not annoying vocals. The singer can ruin everything in this kind of punk rock, when the vocals are too crying and too gnarly, but here the singer sounds emotional, but not too cheesy, so it is another point for this band. So, if you are a fan of such music go get this one. My personal favorites: All About You, Settle In, Walking on Doom.
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