Requiem is a dizzying display of melodic counterpoints and bittersweet hooks dressed up in beefy guitars. Filling the gap left by Jellyfish and Face To Face.
Oi, street punk, hardcore, and dub. Sure to draw comparisons to The Clash’ masterwreck, Sandinista!, but The Boils offer a comprehensive and cohesive epic.
If you’re 16 and pissed at your parents, A Wilhelm Scream make sense. Anthemic, fist-pumping choruses? Metal as fuck riffs? Self-loathing lyrics? Check ’em all.
They nailed the heartachy pop punk formula from the get-go, releasing two great records in the past few years to arrive at the excellence of Redemption.
The Toy Dolls can rock like psychobilly, or grind like any Punk Core band, and they can skip like fruits and get away with it cuz they’re funny as hell.