Destroy Boys – Funeral Soundtrack #4
I first heard them on their “Open Mouth, Open Heart” album released in 2021. I though it was kind of cool, rushing punk at times, had a feminist swing to it (without actually digging deeper into that), but I left it at that. It didn’t stick to me, and I left it there. Did they deserve it? Maybe not.
However, then comes “Funeral Soundtrack #4” this year, and it’s not that too much have changed, but whatever the reason this time it got me stuck to it. They have gotten slower, less classic punk if you will. I tend not to like that. But in this case I do. We have some pop-punk stuff in “Plucked” and some more well written melodic stuff in “You Hear Yes”.
I don’t know that is a great record, objectively speaking, but I find it interesting enough and a great listening to, proved by me having listened to it back to back a couple of times and I’ll be listening to it a few times more.
Sounds like: Kind of like post-punk
I discovered High Vis in 2019 with their first album "No Sense No Feeling" and got hooked right away, this London post-punk kind of band sounds, for lack of a better comparison, as Joy Division playing punk. A bad comparison, yes, but I'm not set out to write great in depth reviews in this blog. So, this is some melodic post-punk with simple guitar melodies, some nice base lines here and there, the drums kind of just follows along (not a bad thing) and the vocals rages from clean to sometimes a little raspy. Also, there's some keyboards to strengthen the post-punk (not new-wave, not art-rock) sound.
This release is a little less produced I guess, so it does have a slightly different sound with less reverb in comparison to the album, but I can't get enough of it.