The Drowns - The Sound 7"
Seattle / LA punk band The Drowns wear their street punk hearts proudly on their sleeves. Their latest 7", The Sound, is an absolute blast.
Seattle / LA punk band The Drowns wear their street punk hearts proudly on their sleeves. Taking sonic cues from the Casualties and the Unseen, The Drowns’ latest 7” offering is as heart-wrenchingly melodic as it is a swift kick in the ass. It’s the kind of street punk that’s been through the wars but is smart and forward-thinking enough to embrace other punk subgenres’ music qualities into its own.
Laced with an acerbic, gruff Midwestern streak that made Dillinger Four a household name, the two songs found here are great sing-a-longs. They are songs that are at home at the pub, on the streets of your suburban neighborhood or in the mean inner cities, but also on the terraces of your favorite football club. "The Sound" is unrelenting guitar pummeling, sandpaper-like vocals, and easy to digest harmonies that never once lose their edge. The song is a call-to-arms of wanting the “simple life”, stamped by the noble cry that “our hearts are in the sound”. The guitar solo that shreds the close of the song is that great one last pint of brew to close the evening.
The second track "The Bricks Ol’ Rainier" is your turn up the volume to eleven Oi-influenced anthem that would be right at home in the Bouncing Souls catalog. It’s everything great about street punk- buoyed by the sounds of working-class grit, gang-vocals, and the intangible spirit of comradeship and brotherhood. This song is like fuel to fire.
While The Sound is a short offering, it continues the resolve they displayed on their 2018 full-length View from the Bottom. The members of The Drowns are no strangers to the punk landscape, having done time in bands like Madcap and Time Again, but this relatively new venture is the best of everything they’ve done so far. And if The Sound is anything to go by, then the future is looking like an amped up, supercharged blast. Let’s go!
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