Zebrahead 10/10
Call Your Friends Record Label: Rude Records
Released: 12 August 2013
Highlight of the album: With Friends Like These Who Needs Herpes Website: http://www.zebrahead.com Reviewer: Jon Seymour
If I had to use a single word to describe this album, that word would be “fun” as that’s exactly what it is. By the time I’d gotten around to putting this on to listen to, it was a Monday morning, and after the first song, the “Monday Morning Blues” had been well and truly blasted away.
a possessed Orang-utan on crystal meth with its arse stuck in a bee hive. Yep I defy anyone not to get even the slightest bit animated when listening to this album, it’s one of those that will just make you feel really good, like chocolate, only less sticky and a lot less fattening.
The album is upbeat, and sits firmly in the same genre alongside Sum 41 and The Offspring et al. That’s not a bad thing though, as in fact that’s a very good thing indeed. It’s an album that fuses rap, rock and punk, and does it with enough of an attitude to make it work really well.
The album consists of fourteen tracks, all of them under four minutes long, so that should give you an idea of the pace that everything moves at. Yep it’s fast, it’s relentless, and will give you one of those stupid inane grins that you can only get from a massive release of endorphins and dopamine, in fact I’d go so far as to wager that this album could make Grumpy Cat smile!
The songs are short and punchy, with monster choruses that will get you singing along, pumping your fists in the air, and leaping around the room like
Blackwolf 10/10
Mr Maker (Single) Record Label: Self Release
Released: 30 September 2013
Highlight of the album: Mr Maker Website: http://www.ukblackwolf.com/ Reviewer: Lee Walker
Bristol rockers Blackwolf have only been around since 2012 but since there formation they are rapidly becoming one of the hottest new rock bands out there with their blues infused classic rock sound mainly thanks to the success of their fantastic ‘Taking Root’ e.p
that only small children and passing dogs can hear while effortlessly blasting out a serious amount of decibels, and when this is augmented by the rest of the band with the stunning guitar work being underpinned by the chunky bass lines and controlled drumming resulting in a sound not to dissimilar to some of The Answers greatest songs and producing ‘Mr Maker’ is a single intended to be a teaser for the a song which is a serious contender for the single of long awaited debut album and upon my first hearing the year. of it all I can say is wow – hurry up and get the album out. Seriously though the single is that good with the only fault being that it is just the one song but what a song. Sticking to the tried and tested formula which made the ‘Taking Root’ so great these guys waste no time unleashing their blues infused breed of classic rock be it with Scott Sharps powerful vocals hitting notes
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