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(review) Fallstar – Sunbreather (Facedown Records)

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Fallstar are coming from Portland and they have a new record with Facedown Records. This record offers 11 songs of interesting and different modern approach to hardcore. The traditionalist in me, grown up in the nineties hardcore scene with nod to youth crew hardcore bands of eighties would discard this record upon first listening. But, hey, I am 43 years old now and take things differently in music.

Fallstar have a pretty original approach to songwriting, cleverly mixing hardcore punk, post hardcore, spacy dreamy vibes, electronics, pop punk and even metalcore in some song parts making one original and soundscape which will take you somewhere to some different dimension while listening to this record. My personal favorites are Cloud Chamber, Waiting and the title song. If you love your hardcore done a bit differently, with lots of melody and intensity at the same time, this record is the right one for you. Do not be scared to check out different things within hardcore scene, diversity makes us strong, we are a small scene in the beginning so there is no need for elitism and quarrels. Support the cause worldwide.

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(review) We Too, Will Fade – Everything Falls Apart As It Should

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Now, this is a discovery! Munich based band We Too, Will Fade have a new release out and I am so glad I got this one and discovered another beautiful band to listen day after day.

This release is an e.p. of a sort containing three songs. The music of We Too, Will Fade can be described as melodic hardcore with some noise and post hardcore influences in the song structure. My Dying Friend is a song whose lyrics hit me right in the eye and made it wet with screaming vocals turning into beautiful melodies, rolling drums and atmospheric parts thrown in for good measure. What I love about this record is besides great music, so poetic and nice lyrics such I didn´t find in this kind of hardcore for a long time now. ITried My Best is a song with most heavy and sombre atmosphere for me, being somehow the most dark song on the record music wise and lyric wise, yet retaining a kind of hope in life and beauty. This one even has some really fast parts thrown in the smart written song structure, like it takes you to some other acoustic dimension. The title song is a short but sweet miniature that takes brings you back from journey and makes you want more.

https://wetoowillfade.bandcamp.com/album/everything-falls-apart-as-it-should

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(review) Touche Amore – Lament

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Touche Amore are Los Angeles based hardcore punk band. Their approach to songwriting and exploring some new territories outside the box brought them great respect and love in the hardcore punk community.

The music of Touche Amore is emotional and melodic hardcore in its base, also punk rock from which it all evolved, yet the band is not afraid to explore the territories of screamo, noise, post punk and even pop and play with them, thus creating a sonic landscape that just makes you sink in the songs and let them take you to some other place, where there is no pain, no depression and no sadness, place where you can face the Sun with the honest smile on your face and raise your hand, point the middle finger to the world and all the ghosts that haunt you in your black heart.

This new record contains 11 songs and I think that is the best to listen to this album as a whole because it carries the story in a way. It is not a concept album per se, but I understood it that way. The fast hardcore punk parts in some songs like awesome Feign shows the band´s roots and punk rock upbringings. But, atmospheric parts are what enriches the songs and makes them real jewels in the hardcore punk crown. Lyrics are poetic, but understandable and when I read the lyrics I am reminded why I love hardcore so much all these almost thirty years. Jeremy Bolm´s vocals are just fantastic, from screaming parts to cleanly sung melodic parts are impressive how fast they can transform. It is soo hard to take some songs which I can consider as favorites above rest because the record is fantastic, but I will try: Feign, Reminders, A Broadcast.

https://toucheamore.bandcamp.com/album/lament