Freedumb – Get Away
Genre: Metal – Rock / Punk
Say what you will about the world going to hell in a handbasket, but, at the very least, we have a lot more and better entertainment than most of the generations before we did. Regardless of your particular taste in entertainment, you’re almost guaranteed a niche that supports it. And, most likely, you are never going to run out of content to consume.
Oh, how things have changed. Take the original hardcore punk bands, for example. People like Henry Rollins talk about listening to Ted Nugent records. Consider though that few other things that were available in mainstream stores provided a similarly powerful kick that can be absorbed by the adolescent. KISS and Blue Oyster Cult were similar options. That’s as fast and hard as big-selling bands could play and still get a record deal.
In this regard, if you’re a fan of fast-paced, loud, punk music, things have changed for the better. Norway group Freedumb should be right up your alley. The vocals to Get Away are a shouting match between the lead singer and the rest of the group, the lyrics speak of the need to distance oneself from society’s toxicity, and the group plays like their lives depended on it. I know it’s not fashionable to feel grateful. But, for once, let’s just call it for what it is. We got lucky with Freedumb and the contingent of punk-rock groups knocking about.
Bingo Fighter – Hobbits
Genre: Punk, Post-Punk, Pop Punk
No joke stays funny if you’ve heard it a million times. Nothing is sexy if you see it from really up close and in great detail. Most of us might be creatures of habit when it comes to things like work and rest, but we need our entertaining to be surprising and exciting. We crave constant stimulation, or, at the very least chuckles.
Pop music has the tendency to move cyclically. I am sad to report that we have re-entered the cycle where artists are trying to craft long, complex songs that describe their feelings or echo the woes of the world. Everyone thinks of themselves as potential prog-rock royalty, imagining their fans diligently trying to work out the meaning of their songs.
“Hobbits! Hobbits! Hobbits!” Nobody else writes like that. Let Bingo Fighter be your rock poet. Much like metalheads and prog-rockers the songwriter shares an affinity for Lord of the Rings Lore. Unlike them, though, Bingo Fighter knows it’s all a bit of a lark. Come rest your head you weary traveller and enjoy a song about the undisputed greatness of hobbits. Had John Lydon started a band with the folks from Yes, post-punk might have taken a completely different turn.
