When I heard the first two singles I wanna be a dog and Everything to me, I was somehow not much impressed, the songs were okay, but it was like something lacked to them, some anthemic melody as I thought. Now, after I listened to the all of the 14 songs for couple of times now, I love the album. Teenage Bottlerocket continue to play and evolve their Ramones core version of pop punk melody and energy. The musicianship is tighter than ever and the energy delivered on this record is awesome. Lyrical wise, they continued their sci fi tongue in cheek inspired lyrics like Night of the knuckleheads, I´ll kill you tomorrow, humour like awesome Creature from the black metal lagoon or Wild Hair(Across my ass), but there are some serious tunes like gentle Everything to me that I mentioned above or Little kid and Anti-social media. I have a feeling that the band sounds like a cross between the newer Lillingtons material in the songs tha Kody sings and the earlier Ramones core pop punk in the songs that Ray sings with Kody sung material being better to my personal taste. Great record, can´t wait to hear the new songs live this Summer!
Masked Intruder is back! The masked mysterious men just released their brand new album and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.
This brand new album contains 12 songs and those who love this band will love them even more, those that didn´t like them prior to this album will not change their opinion. The Wisconsin based four masked men whose identity is a secret continue to play their vision of pop punk that is ultra melodic and borders with powerpop with great melodies just made for listening on a pretty sunny day and thinking about doing some mischief. You heard the singles All Of My Love and No Case prior to the release of the album, they are in no way the best songs on this record. There are far better melodic pop punk songs in my opinion like Stay With Me Tonight and Please Come Back. If you are into this kind of punkrock you will love this record. I am eager to check out how this sounds live and I am happy that I will check out this band live at this year´s Punk Rock Holiday in Tolmin, Slovenia. This is a good album.
Coral Springs from Holland are one of those bands that you fall in love with upon first listening, like I did when I listened and reviewed their new record for our zine. Read further on why and how that happened.
The spring is in the air and winter is dying, air is warm for a long afternoon walk and how it could be better then with some great melodic punkrock band. Coral Springs just released their new record with 12 songs of beautiful melodic punk/pop punk. The vocals on this record provided by the singer Jo are like angels choir to me, they take me to the land of fantasizing and make me believe in better tomorrow. The guitar melodies, harmonies, energy, choruses, everything on this record fits just perfectly and makes you smile and spin the record again and again and again. The best songs on this record in my opinion are I Lost Track, One Gesture and Ghost. Awesome!
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