Brett Newski – Seek Asylum from Myself
Genre: Indie Rock
Brett Newski makes alt-rock that swings people through the day, and out of the dark places where the mind inevitably tends to go sometimes.
The electric guitar can be a man’s best friend. Unlike a dog, it doesn’t require walking, but there’s certainly care and tenderness needed if one hopes to earn back the love of the six-string.
The guitar can do a lot of things for its owner. Nevermore so than on the dark nights of the soul when a true friend is difficult to be found. Like staring into open flames, the six-string shows the owner what they want to see, and helps them communicate those visions with others.
This is the kind of work that Brett Newski busies himself with. On Seek Asylum from Myself, Brett Newski writes music meant to chase his listener’s bad dreams away, and in doing so get rid of some of his. This is tortured, yet humorous writing, hard-rocking, yet light.
FRIENDLY FIRE – Jeanette
Genre: Punk, Post-Punk, Pop Punk
Friendly Fire’s Jeanette is music for those that believe reminiscing should always involve recalling the passion and danger of the days being recalled.
The Cramps’ Lux Interior that there was nothing good, or redeemable about rock n’ roll. While that makes for quite the quote. I tend to disagree, especially when it comes to punk music. More people have been put on the right track by loud guitars and screamed vocals, then kids visiting Youth detention centres.
I know personally a lot of these stories and tend to believe that the rate of success that punk has on altering people’s lives for the better is because of the honesty of the tales being told. This is not music about pretending that the world was better. It’s music about seeing it as it is.
Friendly Fire writes from experience on Jeanette. And, even though blood and tears have flowed in the making of this, there’s little resentment to the inability to face the fact. No, instead this is a movement that inspires courage, as all great punk-rock tunes should. Friendly Fire are an ambitious, forward-facing band. And, that’s what punk-rock was always all about.
