Labels: Rakalevyt – Solid Sound
Review by: Thomas Strawbridge
The somewhat confrontational promo flier (after informing me i’ll be “pissing in my own cereals one day”) comes to a final statement: “a lot of other people have also loved it – how about you?”. Well chaps, I’m afraid I don’t really like it too much. Melodic hardcore punk with an anthemic sound that unfortunately winds up making this sound more like stadium rock in places – kind of similar to what was wrong with the Marathon album. Which is actually a reasonable reference point for this in terms of sound and certainly the lead vocals, although the song writing here is much more basic. The songs get worse as the album goes on, but the lyrics are bad throughout. The first song goes “fuck myspace fuck facebook” (a cursory search turns up an up to date myspace page…), and this is pretty much the standard. A collection of bad songs, resulting in a bad record. Guess I just pissed in my cereal.