Beschreibung

Debut album from this new Danish band that features former members of No Hope for the Kids and Hjerte Stop. If you were a big NHFTK fan (and who wasn t in like 2004?) you ll immediately recognize the distinctive vocals, but The War Goes On is a little different. While the dark melodies and catchy vocals are very much intact from NHFTK, the music is generally faster and more straightforwardly punk a la Hjerte Stop… maybe I m just listening for it because I m aware of the members backgrounds, but it does sound like those two bands smashed together. It s extremely well-written and recorded, to the point where some of it actually reminds me a bit of Bad Religion s stuff from the early 00s after they returned to Epitaph and kind of re-punked-up their sound. I m sure that comparison will be a big turn-off to some people, but it does serve as fair warning: this is pretty slick stuff, but I wouldn t say it s overproduced by any means. I can t help but feel like if this has come out 10-12 years ago they would be, hands-down, one of the biggest bands in the worldwide punk scene, but the sound of this, to me at least, doesn t seem to be where a lot of people s heads are at in 2016. There are advantages and disadvantages to that; on the one hand it sticks out more for sounding very different than most of the recent stuff that has passed across my turntable, but at the same time it doesn t have the force of the zeitgeist behind it. It s definitely a well-crafted, engaging record, so use the info above to determine if you re someone likely to be blown away by it.