It sounds like an old cassette tape demo recording from the seventies or eighties by an English garage- or punk band. Often I find it hard to hear the lyrics from the somewhat can-sounding vocals. It’s straight, simple rock riffs without detours and extravagance. A combination I probably wouldn’t have chosen for my music menu if it hadn’t jumped into my inbox. But it feels good listening to this, and my foot starts moving with the rough guitar rhytms. And when the bass starts pumping with a wavy sound and is followed by the catchy guitar figure in “Trees Passing”, it’s time to surrender. The band’s name is Georgia Barbershop, the album “It’s Alright, It’s Okay, It Only Took Seven Years” is their debut and they are now on their way working with their second album.
Here’s a couple of tracks to taste Tyred Eyes’, hailing from Göteborg, latest EP “Ghost”. They deliver a melodic, garage-sounding rock’n'roll punk where the two singers give everything in every song; music that feels like it’s made for an emotionally charged and sweaty club gig. The band was formed in 2009 and has earlier released an EP and an album.
The punk band Tiger Bell released their EP “Slaughter’s Daughter” last month, a record full of fast, garageband-sounding melodic rock. Here’s a taste from the EP with the title track. Great song!
The song “Slaughter’s Daughter” came about as Tiger Bell stumbled upon the roller derby team with the same name, googled their home page, became seriously inspired, grabbed the guitars and wrote down the song on a piece of paper – like if it was there all the time waiting to be written.
Here’s some more punk rock, this time with The Bristles and their song and video “The End”. The song is taken from their new album “Bigger Than Punk” and the video comes from Greenpeace UK’s “The Go Beyond Oil campaign”, a campaign with the focus on terminating our dependence on oil. The reasons are quite clearly shown in the film.
I wrote about Joel Segerstedt’s and Markus Johansson’s punk band Hjärtattack half a year ago when they released the single ”Överklassafari”. In the end of November they also released the album they promised us, “Tillbaka till framtiden” (“Back to the future”). As the name implies and as I wrote last time, this is a trip back to the eighties and their roots in punk rock back then. And I think that they sound even better now, especially if you like melodic punk. Try for yourself in a couple of songs here below.
I will stay in Malmö with today’s second post. It’s the band Bruce, who recently released their debut ep ”Folk kämpar” (“People struggle”), an album which is recorded live from what I understand, and which tastes warm garage rock and punk shot straight from the heart. They say themselves that they’ve been inspired by BRMC, Captain Beefheart and Pascal and also by artists like Tom Waits and Bryan Ferry.
Here’s an interesting new trio from Malmö, No Favours, that released the single “Hands & Hearts” a couple of weeks ago. It’s also one of the songs from the debut album, which will be released now in December. Nicely rough, garage-punkish with vibes of Sonic Youth-rock and shoegaze. There are also a couple of earlier songs to listen to on their Bandcamp page.
I have just finished reading Dante’s “Inferno” and maybe some parts of this journey through hell could have had Rättens Krater’s EP “Stora stöten” (“The big hit”) as a soundtrack. They have also that in common that they mix antique mythological references with visions of hell and a night dark view of society. It’s a cool chaotic garage-sounding lo-fi-punk with lyrics that is packed with images, which to me seems quite different, at least if I compare with the punk I’m used to hear. Somewhere I feel some references to punk from the early eighties to which they add their own approaches like when they for example make the chorus swing in the song below “Der Totenfluss Styx”.
It took the band Le Muhr five years to launch a follow-up to the debut album from 2007, “Generation destruktiv”. The EP “Flickorna på klubben” with it’s six tracks was released in the beginning of this year and feels like a kajal painted soundtrack to the big city’s decadent night life, viewed with cynical and ironic eyes. There’s a lot of the eighties in their synth-punk-new wave and the contents would probably have worked just as good back then as it works today.
Gamla Pengar comes from Göteborg and delivers an uncompromising punk rock, which reminds me of classic Swedish punk from the eighties, on the latest three-track EP “Vackra land som ingenting gav”. With anger and garage-raw, melodic punk they cut greed and consumption along the ankles. And with a great rock swing too. Here below is the starting track “Här är ditt liv”.
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