The Warriors – Genuine Sense of Outrage

The Warriors – Genuine Sense of Outrage

Victory Records

4 out of 5 stars

1. The Ruthless Sweep
2. Life Grows Cold
3. The Stone Grinds
4. Price Of Punishment
5. Genuine Sense Of Outrage
6. Destroying Cenodoxus
7. New Sun Rising

8. Your Time Is Near
9. Silence Is Bliss
10. Nothing Lasts
11. Belly
12. Odium Vice
13. Mankind Screams

If there is one thing to should ever be said, with no other words spoken, about the Warriors’ third full-length album, Genuine Sense of Outrage, it’s this: sometimes, your ears just need to be punished.

Genuine Sense of Outrage is an album that’s irate, seething, mad, OUTRAGED, and this metalcore en bloc has no problem telling you so. Marshall’s throaty snarls on opener “Ruthless Sweep” are outrageously fierce, even sometimes deliriously harmonious, while Charlie & Javier shred on their guitars in equal umbrage. On “The Price of Punishment” and “Odium Vice,” Matt’s drums beats smack you down hard and Danny’s multi-layered bass lines are intensity personified.

The Warriors’ amalgamation of hardcore, hip-hop, and trash on Genuine Sense of Outrage creates a sound that’s beyond rage, and while sometimes over-hyped, works successfully. There’s rhythm. There’s lashing. There’s anger. .

Not An Airplane: I Never Wanted To Believe In Ghosts

In the tradition of mysterious musicians hiding behind alter-egos with anomalous names, singer-songwriter Nick Shattell has released I Never Wanted to Believe in Ghosts under the head-scratching pseudonym Not an Airplane.

Geared towards the 30-something crowd trying to find love and peace and their own minds amongst the crowd of children and marriage and togetherness, I Never Wanted to Believe in Ghosts from this Northern Californian musician would be the ideal soundtrack for any coming-of-age movie featuring an emotionless drifter who accidentally finds love. In other words, suitable for any Zach Braff project (just listen to “Different,” “Less Heavy,” and “Somehow” to know what I mean). And while others may see this as a bad thing, it’s not. There is a certain alluring quality about Not an Airplane – Shattell’s voice is strangely comforting with the gentle plucks of his guitar strings amplifying the quiet irresistibility (just check out the track “Honestly.”) An album that embodies the loneliness of a big city – where there are street lights and corner stores and 24-hour ATMs but your head is stuck in a small town place (“The City That Sleeps”), I Never Wanted to Believe in Ghosts is 11 tracks of acoustic charm.

Lunch Records: Four By Four Compilation

Opening the four bands/sixteen songs compilation Four by Four: Volume 1, out on Lunch Records, is the Boston quintet Taxpayer, who build on a satire of idiom with a tower of solid kicks and jock-rock mixed with fuming Indie-rock. They’re at their best on “Bugs in Amber” and “Medic,” two whipping rock anthems that burst with pretentious intelligence and electro-dance regularities. Following suit is the Fever Monument, a band comfortable with their creamy pop that resembles a mix of Irish punk with early Social Distortion. They draw together an innovative style within their imitation on “I’ve Benn Wrong” and “Rumor Mill,” tracks that group running riffs with rockabilly bass lines. There are also some missteps on Four by Four by Easthampton, MA outfit Red Door Exchange, who, through their tracks, tend to blend awkward guitars rhythms, aggressively silent drums, and crackling vocals.

But the highlight of the album lays in tracks nine to 12, all by the Boston-born/New York bred Indie-rock troupe Morning Theft. “Keep it Like a Secret” harmonizes and mesmerizes with soft bellows and silky condensed currents, while the direct and edgy “You’ve Failed Me as a Friend” has vocalist Rob Holmes screaming his heart out and guitarist Peter Kim shredding in equal umbrage.

All in all, Four by Four is an eclectic hum collection of four distinct bands with much to offer and much to give.