For those who don´t know The 1984 Draft are from Dayton, Ohio and I listened and reviewed their new record for this webzine.
Led by the mastermind songwriter Joe Anderl, these guys combine the sensitivity of pop punk and melodic punkrock with some darker and I dare say romantic undertones in their songs. The album contains 10 excellent songs for contemplating and at the same time enjoying the melodic riffs with beautiful vocal lines. The singing is nice and it suits perfectly into this band˙s opus. As I understood while listening, the lyrics are personal and easy to relate to. If I must compare the band to someone it would be like The Bouncing Souls meeting Morrissey and making an album worth of great songs. As for me, my personal favorite songs on this record are “Miss Ohio”, “Lutheran Heat” and above all “Lisbon Falls”. If you are fan of elaborate and melodic, also intelligent punkrock, check out this records because you won´t be sorry!
South America is filled with undiscovered wonders, meaning tons of excellent bands and labels and nice people. BBS Paranoicos are from Santiago de Chile and they play a mix of melodic punkrock and hardcore and I listened and reviewed their new record out on Pulpa Discos for this webzine.
The record contains 12 songs of excellent melodic hardcore punkrock. If I must compare the music to some bands it would be like Descendents meeting No Use For A Name meaning punkrock with a lot of emotion behind the music. One other thing that I must mention while listening to this record are the vocals. The singer of this band is one of the best, nice, beautiful voices I have ever heard and I heard a lot of them! Excellent melodies, excellent harmonies and songs that don´t get boring throughout the whole album. Unfortunately or luckily, all songs are in Spanish language, so I can˙t understand what they are all about, but nevertheless this is an awesome record that makes me listen to it on repeat over and over again! Top songs in my opinion are: “Insomnio” and “Enemigo Mio”.
German Bielefeld punks Primetime Failure whose record we reviewed in this zine not long ago, just released their new video for the cool song so, watch it here:
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