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You can’t beat a bit of punk rock and it’s
even better when the band are from England and combine
poppy-punk with the more raw side of punk and that
is exactly what this Lincoln five piece The Living
Daylights have done, and they have just created
a brand new album called ‘Ways To Escape’
for Fond Of Life Records and it looks like they
have a massive tour around the UK and mainland Europe
to coincide with the release.
For someone like myself who grew up listening
to the UK punk rock bands such as 4FT Fingers,
Gash, Short Warning, The Bombjacks, Phinius Gage,
Not Katies and so many other great bands from
the underground punk scene, it is a pleasure to
listen to ‘Ways To Escape’ from The
Living Daylights as the album reminds me of all
these great bands that sadly aren’t anymore.
There is defiantly a lot going for ‘Ways
To Escape’, the opening track ‘Carve
It Out’ starts with group chant along vocals
of “Stand up, stand up, carve it out with
broken fingers” and as soon as that finish
and mad drumming assault and thick punk rock guitar
riffs come in, with vocalist Sam Cook bringing
in a great set of vocals which sound best during
the melodic chorus of “stand up, stand up”,
the song is short but sweet running for just over
1minute.
The instrumental work throughout the album is
really impressive, Dan Brogan is forever making
the best of his drumming skills with really hard
constant hits on his kit, the guitar riffs are
loud and have that punk rock feel, the bass lines
are bouncy in places and help keep the songs together,
as for the vocals they are pretty huge sounding
and full of hooks and melodic sing along moments.
There are so many great songs on the album such
as ‘Maps’ which has a great guitar
driven introduction, to ‘Let Me Loose’
which starts off vocally fast and ends up being
a fast flowing punk rock song that runs for just
over 2minutes to the extreme bounciness of ‘My
Return’, they are all top moments and the
thing is pretty much all the tracks on the album
have something about them that stick out, something
that you will remember them for and that’s
what makes The Living Daylights a really exciting
band.
If anyone is going to help make the UK punk rock
scene healthy again then The Living Daylights
can certainly help as they are on the right tracks
to success, they release the stunning album that
is ‘Ways To Escape’ on the 6th April
and then tour relentlessly across the whole of
Europe, The Living Daylights are a band to watch,
they have a solid sound and make the most of infectious
punk rock.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
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Members |
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Sam david Cook (Vocals)
Matthew Thomas Hendry (Guitar,
Vocals)
Alexander Guy Johnson (Guitar,
Vocals)
Kurt Colman (Bass)
Daniel Tromans (Drums) |
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1. Crave It Out
2. Dead As Mine
3. Searching For Disaster
4. Maps
5. Let Me Loose
6. My Return
7. In Between
8. Wasted On The Rain
9. Frustrations & Releases
10. Melancholy
11. Undertow
12. The Sleeping |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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