Legendary punk band The Dwarves are back with their brand new studio full length and 20 new songs for your listening pleasure. For those who don’t know, The Dwarves play mixture of melodic punk, hardcore and garage punk. Vocalist Blag Dahlia sounds better than ever and the band is musically tight delivering the songs as energy bomb, one after another. From melodic chorus of ‘Feeling great’, across hardcore punk fast ‘Voodoo’, The Dwarves deliver the goods. The Dwarves never cared about political correctness, having their deal of scandals over the years with album covers, death hoaxes, feuds and brawls with other bands. Besides Blag Dahlia, The Dwarves line-up also consists of celebrity drummer Josh Freese (Foo Fighters), legendary multi-instrumentalist Nick Oliveri (Kyuss) and dozens of rock luminaries. Other songs that I must mention as being highlights on this album for me are ‘Dead To Me’, playful sexy song, also ‘Roxette’, ‘Everybody Squirts’ and ‘We Will Dare’ but as I listened album over and over every time something else springs forth making this a great listening pleasure. Go listen to The Dwarves if you dare!
Countin´ Cards is the new project by Jesse Sendejas, known for his Days n Daze band that is also on Fat if I am not mistaken, and I think I am not. Well, let us talk about this great album. It offers 9 songs. What I love is diversity of this album and the songs, from ferocious angry hardcore punk of Heads Up 7 Up, across almost nineties pop punk/reggae influenced Shit Show with beautiful dual vocals and mandolin parts, courtesy of Veronica Sendejas, to Learning Curve reminding a bit of Less Than Jake and Nofx, but not as a copy, but in a good way. What is the strength of this record, besides good songwriting are vocals with such an easy transformation from screaming crust anger to great melodies and harmonies fitting perfectly in each part of the song. I would love to see how this band sounds live, I am sure it is fantastic show, energy and this record just brings smile to my face and songs like Wasted Years or 12 Rounds remind me why I love this kind of punk rock so much. Great album!
Hollywood Ritz is about as close to a love song as Nerdlinger is ever going to get. It’s about that effervescent, incandescent moment first thing in the morning, that glistening smile from your significant other as they sip their morning coffee and stare at you, through the window, while you stumble out of the Uber and into the street, carrying with you a half eaten kebab and a smell that would make Elvis’s gym shorts blush…. but for some unknown reason.. they don’t mind, instead they give you a Panadol and a PowerAid then tuck you into bed…
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