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A New Day have hailed from Llantwit Major in South
Wales and have been together since 2002, the band
have been through a number of line up changes with
members coming and going through the years but the
band hasn’t let that bother them but instead
they keep coming back fighting stronger, only a
few months ago the band were unsigned, but now they
have inked a deal with Lockjaw Records who will
release their 6 track EP Perfect Passion on the
19th May.
The band are clearly influenced by punk rock
bands such as The Disappointments, Failsafe, A
Wilhelm Scream and many of the harder sounding
punk bands around at the moment. The album starts
off with 'A1 B2 C3' the song is fast, off the
mark and hard hitting, the drumming is constant
and on time, the guitars are fast and furious
and have punk written all over them, frontman
Calum Fox's vocals are loud and clear yet quite
raw and aggressive sounding in places giving the
song an overall punk feel.
Toned down drumming opens 'Letters To Grace',
about 40 seconds into the song the guitars slowly
start to appear as the drumming gets more constant
and more louder and when the song hits the minute
mark, the guitar riffs come in thick and fast
with stand out drumming cropping up all over the
place, the vocals are once again quite raw and
shouty sounding with more sing a long melodic
backing vocals which seems to work really well.
The opening guitar work to 'More To A Hero Than
Saving The Day' is top stuff, the drums once again
really stand out and the song in general is pretty
hard hitting.
Punk rock is a hard scene to master and standout
from the crowd, A New Day are talented musicians
especially Martyn Edwards whose drumming is simply
amazing. But the main downside to A New Day is
the fact that their sound isn’t unique and
it isn’t different from what other bands
in the scene are offering, nevertheless A New
Day are definitely worth checking out, just don’t
hold your hopes on finding your new favourite
band here.
3/5
Review by Trigger |
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Calum (Vocals)
Dan (Bass, Vocals)
Martyn (Drums, Vocals)
Leigh (Guitar, Vocals) |
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1. A1 B2 C3
2. Letters To Grace
3. More To A Hero Than Saving The Day
4. Koko Ni Dare Mo Imasen
5. Reality Check
6. 14 - 15 |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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