RELEASE: LEPER - Frail Life
RECORD LABEL: Kink Records RELEASE DATE: 25 Jan 2020 BAND ORIGIN: Umeå, Sweden STYLE: Hardcore Punk / Raw Punk REVIEWER: Coffee Punx
Straight outta Umeå, Sweden, the city with one of the coolest punk scenes in Sweden (there're lots more of course), and, may be one of the coolest ones in the world. From members of such projects as Fukushima, U.X. VILEHEADS, Amöba, to be honest, i didn't know any of these bands, but they're more than worth to check them out, thanks to discogs. Frail Life is the second official release, according to bandcamp, the first 4-song Demo tape came out in 2017, all 4 songs appeared on new LP. Since then, sound hasn't changed a lot, may be become even a little bit more raw, which i found great!
The cover is pretty easy made, but it gets your attention immediately, at least this what happened to me when I first saw it. LP has 9 songs on it and each song is not more than 2 minutes long (ok, ICBM is 2:05 but it's sounds better to say like i did haha). I really like the parts in ICBM and Faster, with repeating of the word "you" in the first case and "sick" in the second one. Luckily, you can check out the lyrics without having a record in your hands, I have an LP, by the way. So, lyrics, as i've said, are really nice, I really like text in "Faster", it's suits to the times right now perfect, "Living in the endtimes is such a fucking bore, Just waiting for the chaos to erupt and end it all" and repeating this sick part in the end is sick:) Leper plays quite usual hardcore punk music, which you can hear by many bands nowadays, but it still really intense and with lots of really cool parts, I enjoyed guitar and bass a lot, but yeah, everything played really well, and, yeah, it's catchy. I decided to check out some live videos to get some more impression about the band, and, I should say, I would really to get to their show, hope it will be possible soon. Check this one out: Leper live i Stockholm (23/2-2019). I guess i'm a fan:) My personal tops are: Good Boy, ICBM, Faster, Search Light, Frail Life. IT'S 7.5/10.
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