Dead Pollys are no strangers to this webzine and they recently released new record with Too Loud Records. There are 12 songs on this release and the music is energetic, melodic punk rock, mainly fast and with rough edged vocals not typical for this kind of music, thus making this record a bit more original than other bands. But, I can also hear more harsher sound and harder songs, due to line-up change, with band having new drummer and new guitarist in their ranks. Besides melodic punk, I can hear lots of garage punk influence, even 77 style punk rock here and there, maybe it is only me hearing that in their songs. Lyrically the band explores future apocalyptic world where people rather give up than fight and pretty bleak landscapes are described in lyrics but also enabling us to open our eyes and try to fight for our future. I can only imagine how these songs sound nice and harsh live while listening to epic guitar melodies of ’94’ and ‘Two Weeks To Live’, couple of my personal favorites on this record, maybe because these songs could go into more melodic department of things, also ‘Yes, Sir’ is one of the highlights on this record, not accidentally chosen as a single prior to releasing this one. So, if you like your punk rock harsh yet melodic and garage at times, go listen to this one.
Oddball Creatures are coming from Lyon, France. They were formed in 2017 but had lots of line-up changes until mid 2019 when this line-up stabilized. This is their new release containing seven songs. With music of Oddball Creatures we can only say, humor, fun and more fun. With songs like ‘Like A Fart In My Mouth’, ‘We Want Beer’ or ‘I Just Need Your Ass’, you know what the lyrical themes are about, or you can just look at t title of the record or the cover picture. Music is melodic punk, leaning more and being more influenced by Ramones three chord attack, playing so called Ramonescore, reminding me a bit of Teenage Bottlerocket and similar bands who play that style of punk rock. Vocals are also a bit over the top, but that is a must when playing music like this one, this is in fact energetic punk rock with three chords and not much philosophy or wisdom. Just plain punk! My personal favorite on this record is ‘We Want Beer’ which has a bit more street punk influenced guitar work and a bit rougher edged vocals. Go have a listen!
Konačno je izašao dugoočekivani solo album gitariste/vokala legendarnih srpskih punk rock bendova Six Pack i Čovek bez sluha. Što reči o ovom albumu? Deset pjesama pomalo sličnih matičnim bendovima, no u isto vrijeme drugačijih potpomognutih Mikijevom odličnom poezijom od tekstova i tom melankolijom zbog koje sam se i zaljubio u Six Pack prije nekoliko desetljeća. Melodije su odlične, catchy, a pop punk pršti od energije i istovremeno odličnih terca, harmonija i brzih riffova. Da, na albumu ima i brzih pjesama kao što je odlična ‘Humoreska’ sa tako prelijepim refrenom i backing vokal harmonijama koje prožimaju glavnu melodiju. Klavijature na početku ‘Počeo je kraj’ odaju emocionalnu pjesmu prepunu balade i odličnog teksta, ali bez patetike. Album je priča o skitanju Mikija kroz muzičke krajolike, no on ne skiće, tu je negdje u toj prelijepoj punk rock priči sva ova desetljeća i hvala mu na tome. Ima ovdje i angažiranih pjesama kao u odličnoj ‘Bot’, lukavo odabranoj kao single koja progovara o nasilju i bullyingu među djecom i mislim da je reakcija na nedavne tragične događaje u Srbiji. Na albumu se nalazi i već objavljena ‘Tony’, fantastična, brza i dirljiva posveta prerano preminulom pjevaču/gitaristu No Use For A Name i muzičaru/tekstopicu par excellence. Singlovi ‘Vratiće se vrapci’ i grandiozna posveta palom punk suborcu i bratu naslovna pjesma albuma su na repeat i iako ima izleta u pop vode kao što je ‘Pamti se samo fail’ album je fantastičan!
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