Healthy Junkies - The Lost Refuge
I like a
band who look at a nice neat genre hole and resolutely refuse to be
pushed into it.
That
attitude shows a certain degree of courage, faith in what they are
doing, and respect for the audience as they are aware that most of us
don't need anything dumbed down for us.
Healthy
Junkies are that sort of band.
A mish
mash of influences, a clear understanding of who they are, and enough
attitude to carry the material across with conviction.
Calling
them a punk band would possibly lead others to mistakenly consider
them as being of a certain limited sound, but that would miss the
point as they are what I would call a 'real' punk band.
One who
grasp the idea of free expression, of foregoing glancing at a rule
book, of setting out to chart their own path.
They
operate on the edge of something a bit more meaty, but keep the
melody in sight.
Sort of a
new wave post punk angle on it.
Interesting,
entertaining and full of chutzpah.
In Evil
Hour – The World Bleeds Out.
Everything
about 'In Evil Hour' screamed stereotype when the CD slipped from the
envelope.
Lowest
common denominator punk that is frankly starting to bore the arse
right off me, but then I placed the disc in the tray and all my
preconceived notions were hammered into submission.
Political
sussed - and intelligent enough to get the anti establishment message
over without resorting to using words of one syllable - the band have
restored a bit of my lost faith in hardcore.
Just in
time to.
The US
influences are stamped heavily across the tracks, but personally I
would rather have Bad Religion, or even AFI, over the Exploited so
you wont find a complaint from me in that department.
It is of
course early days for the band, so who knows what lies in the future
for In Evil Hour, but they've certainly kicked off in fine style with
an album that can grab the attention from the first chord and begs to
be played again and again.
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