Straightline
Final Redemption

THE REVIEW

Today I've decided I don't care. I don't care about the terrible pun that will follow, I don't care if no one cares about a unknown Skate Punk band from Munich supporting the German shows of Face to Face. I don't care if this is nothing new, I'm probably not looking for the "new".

Yes, okay. Very familiar but also very reassuring skate punk/melodic hardcore. Riffs borrowed from Strung Out of the golden days, lyrics that are roughly what I'm looking for in this genre, tight rhythms and tributes here to Bad Religion, here to Strung Out, here to the early Rise Against, here to Good Riddance, here to Face To Face. Yes, the reference points are those, here we are not trying to do something new, here we are faithful to the old recipe, the one that works. They know it, very often if you try to play completely new here, you end up flat on your ass, better not overdo it, the important things have already been said but hey, "repetita iuvant" so off we go with the old and always relevant lesson.

A fantastic dive into the 90s, a cure-all for the nostalgic, for those who don't want to forget but also for those like me, who missed them. Those bands are still around, I enjoyed them anyway but in the late 90s in their peak period it must have been a whole other thing. Maybe I have no reason to say it, I don't know, maybe I should settle for what I have now. Maybe when I listen to a 2013 record by a Skate Punk/Melodic Hardcore band from Munich I should think of listening to a 2013 record by a Skate Punk/Melodic Hardcore band from Munich.

But anyway, today I've decided I don't care.