Italian punk act, Bedtime for Charlie, have posted a new song called “Captain Chaos.”
You can give it a listen here.
It is unclear if the song will appear on a new album. The band released their latest album “Bright Light City Skyline” last year.
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Italy melodic punk act No Blame will release their new album “Asymptotes” tomorrow on No Reason Records.
To give you a taste of what’s to come you can stream “Ashes” and “Of The Storm”, two new songs off the release, right here.
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Italian punk act, Bedtime for Charlie, have posted the music video for their song “The Snake.”
You can check it out here.
The song appears on their latest album “Bright Light City Skyline.”
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If Millencolin and Strike Anywhere met at a dingy Swedish dive bar, and after a drunken romp later that night Strike Anywhere ended up pregnant, and nine months later gave the baby up for adoption to Divit, that baby would be named Bedtime for Charlie.
Fortunately for Bedtime for Charlie, they can turn an English phrase better than their biological father, which is a rare and remarkable attribute for a European band singing in English. Also fortunate is that they inherited their father’s remarkable backup harmony abilities, and “Bright Light City Skyline” is chock full of them.
The album starts off with the anthemic “Throwing Life Away”, a gang-vocal driven mid-tempo rocker that segues seamlessly into “Collide”, an uptempo tune with plenty more vocal harmonies and open guitar leads. Someone obviously put a bit of thought into the track order, as each song’s ending is matched well to the next song’s beginning. The effect is to give “Bright Light” a true album feel, rather than a thrown together collection of 12 songs.
“I Never Sold Out Because I Never Got The Chance” goes against the usual punk grain, declaring “who wouldn’t want to be a rockstar?” It’s a “Please Play This Song on the Radio” type tune, complete with the obligatory pop-punk production tricks and backup vocals in just the right places. The difference is that Bedtime sings the lyrics in earnest with none of the tongue-in-cheek humor of the NOFX tune. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), I couldn’t help getting this one stuck in my head.
Bedtime for Charlie aren’t pushing any boundaries here, but this is a very solid offering with good songwriting, production, and performances throughout. Any fan of the Strike Anywhere/Rise Against/Millencolin school of punk will enjoy this one from beginning to end.
3.5/5 Stars
Stream the album here.
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Today we’re stoked to bring you a full stream of “Bright Light City Skyline,” the brand new album from Italian melodic punk act, Bedtime for Charlie. Give it a listen here.
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Italian punk act, Bedtime for Charlie, have signed to No Reason Records of the release of their new full-length album “Bright Light City Skyline” and you can download two tracks from the album (“Collide” and “Swim With The Sharks”) right here.
Anybody who buys the album within 10 days will receive a free copy of Jet Market’s album “Sparks Against Darkness”.
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Despite Everything, a punk outfit from Athens, Greece recently put out a split 10″ with Slovenian skate-punkers In-Sane on a host if different labels – Jumpstart (US), No Reason (Italy), Moonlee (Balkans), Fond Of Life (Geermany), etc.
If you’d like to hear the two tracks from Despite Everything you can check them out right here.
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Much The Same bassist Franky Tsoukalas and guitarist Dan O'Gorman, both primary songwriters in their former band, have started a new punk band with Franky taking the lead vocal role as well. They're called Burn Rebuild and you can stream the band's first demo song, "My Therapy Is Failing" right here.
