type advantage are hailing from New Jersey area and this is their EP. This one contains five songs of beautiful melodic pop punk, as the band says on their Bandcamp page, queer pop punk with lots of melody, emotions and some riot grrrl in some song structures like for example in ‘GTFO’. There are sweet, sweet, almost dreamy melodies like for example in ‘find me’, with superb interplay of two vocals, Jessica and Sean throughout the whole record. The lyrics deal with some personal themes, like finding yourself and enjoy living what you are, sexism and patriarchat, loving someone and strongly feeling it, relationships and daydreaming. All of the lyrics are written so smart and it was a pleasure to combine them reading when listening to this record. All of the EP is like made for day dreaming and all those sweet melodies stay with you long after you stopped listening to the record.
China Drum are coming from England and this little EP contains four songs. The common thread of all songs is 1st Avenue which is part of all song titles. Music is melodic punk, a bit rawer but with lots of pop punk influences in the song structures. Guitars are murkier and rawer, bass is pretty loud in the overall production but it all fits just perfectly. Vocals have that raspy, harsher vibe to themselves but sing melodic and they are just perfect for bands like this one. Of all four songs my personal favorites are ‘Can’t Stop 1st Ave’, and also ‘Last Chance 1st Ave’. This is a nice little melodic punk/pop punk EP. I would love to hear more from this band.
Killing Innocence is a band from USA I first heard with this release, never listened to them before. This record contains 10 songs. It is interesting that I found this one when I researched horror punk but this is so much more. First, this is DIY recording, raw and unbridled without studio magic and it brings me to nostalgic days when we released tapes with rehearsal demos on it. Second, this is not horror punk. There are some horror punk and death rock influences in songs like ‘Evil Eddie’ or ‘Necrophiliac’ but there is also pure raw punk, with many Oi and street punk stuff in the song structures, but also Ramones are noticable in ‘The Wannabe Song’. This trio plays like punk is, anything goes, there are some mistakes or sloppy played parts, at least I heard it that way, but this is punk and that is why we love it isn’t it? If I must compare this band to some other bands, it would be Cancerslug, to which they reminded me in couple of songs a lot too.
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