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5 NO DEVOTION Permanence
PENTIMENTO I, No Longer
Collect Records (2015)
Bad Timing Records (2015)
From the ashes of Lostprophets, with the addition of ex-Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley, the world has now No Devotion. Trying to distance themselves from the name of Ian Watkins, and all the things he got convicted for, Welch five-piece took a new path. A new name and new lineup brought changes in style. On their debut, No Devotion offer dark, synth lead record heavily influenced by new wave and synth pop bands of the 80s. The main problem: this record lacks of originality. With nothing we haven’t heard before, or better than that, I just can’t see this record making any kind of impact. Also, with no potential hit song on radar, the job for this band gets even harder. This is not a bad album, but it’s nothing more than average.
In art, a pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidence that the artist has changed his or her mind during the creative process. That’s the way that Buffalo, NY’s Pentimento describe themselves and their music is a portrait of that. The band have been on some ups and downs, but at their second full-length they were able to put together a much more cohesive and strong record. All songs seem to be linked to each other turning the whole album a very neat listening experience. They explore more atmospheric sounds and they sure know how to combine the best of early 2000s emo/ punk with nowadays revivalism of pop punk. Lyrically, I, No Longer is quite introspective and a honest share of ideas and experiences of the group.
FOR FANS OF:
FOR FANS OF:
MILJAN MILEKIC
Thursday, The Cure, Duran Duran
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music&riots
November
ANDREIA ALVES
Taking Back Sunday, Polar Bear Club
8 PROTOMARTYR The Agent Intellect Hardly Art (2015)
Black, dirty and hard. Protomartyr is the perfect music made in the perfect place: Detroit. Once one of the most industrialized cities in the USA, has become an open sewer, where drugs are lurking around in every corner and the irony of life smiled brightly. With so much harm proliferating, Protomartyr amazes with a sound even noisier than the machines who inhabited the city in abundance. It is an attempt to attack the conscience of a lost city, lost to us. They are not alone. There are more bands that currently claim a new postpunk vein, reemerged from the difficulty and confusing times we are living in and when trying to maintain sanity is itself an insane challenge. Punk as a mean of living and education becomes urgent again, regardless of the form in which it is assumed. Protomartyr is a paladin of provocation that we must be alert. RUI CORREIA
FOR FANS OF:
Ought, Viet Cong, Parquet Courts