Vietcong Pornsurfers
We were recently sent through the album Restless, Young, Hungry and Free from Swedish band Vietcong Pornsurfers, aband who deliver furious energetic rock n roll, oozing of teen hormones. Described on their one sheet as ‘not your urine reeking, stereotype punk band that show up way too late in a shot up vehicle, kills 7 anti-state tracks, vomits on stage and trashes the backstage area’ – I’m almost disappointed before hearing the music, but figured that all jokes aside, it was time to check the music out!
The Flag Is On Fire demonstrates immediately that this is a band who are out with a focused mission, to destroy everything in their way. Fast paced drums, hammering guitar lines underpinned with soaring lead snippets and gravelly rough vocals all form over a bass heavy rhythm to get you moving, get you chanting along and get you into the music – I would challenge anyone to sit still throughout this music! On Your Own (but not alone) follows on and keeps everything firmly hard and heavy, the guitars leading the way into a section of spat vocal lines, rolling drums and enough bass to wake up the entire street. What I love immediately about these track is how punk based they are, yet they’re more refined than a simple tag like that, the rock elements which have been added in elevate this to something new, something which is going to come to your town and leave it as dust!
Give It All keeps everything very much on the side of ‘lets rock this joint’, building into the track before kicking into a track that Social Distortion would be proud to call their own. Hard and heavy once again, this is music which is made for the live scene, and I’m not sure the recording does it 100% justice. This seems to be the same within Come Back, another track which is built to get you moving and circling with the crowds, you can almost picture the pits as the track progresses. As if to solidify this image, Getaway Boy continues the album forwards and once again gets you out of your seat and pogoing around the room like a lunatic. What’s striking about the recordings here is that they’re so rough, yet so well put together, it’s got that authentic sound if that makes sense!
Don’t Need Your Lies, A Song For Jonas and Let Me In all do pretty much what it says on the tin, opening fast and drum heavy whilst making sure that there’s lyrics catchy enough to get you singing along throughout. This is punk sure, but this is authentic punk rather than the modern stuff which people call punk, it’s got that rough feeling to it which is going to engage old and new fans alike. The award for the best song title ever though has to go to penultimate track Cunts Don’t Play Guitar, a track which almost sounds softer than the ones before it yets holds all of the power which has become the trademark of the band throughout the album. I’m not sure the style of the song matches the title, but hell, who cares with such an awesome song title!
Closing the album with Spanish Rose, everything turns to a far more indie rock direction and almost softens up, as far as the album goes it’s a bit of an anti-climax to be honest, almost as if by the time they got to this point they’d worn themselves out. As a track, there’s nothing wrong with it, I’m just not sure it closes the album as they’d hope!
I didn’t know what to expect from a band called Vietcong Pornsurfers, especially with song titles such as Cunts Don’t Play Guitars, but actually this album is pretty cool! There’s the raw elements of punk throughout the album, as well as more advanced rock moments, all of which combine to form an album which is catchy and accessible, and one which I know I’ll be listening to again!
To find out more about the Vietcong Pornsurfers, check out their MySpace page HERE.
The Flag Is On Fire demonstrates immediately that this is a band who are out with a focused mission, to destroy everything in their way. Fast paced drums, hammering guitar lines underpinned with soaring lead snippets and gravelly rough vocals all form over a bass heavy rhythm to get you moving, get you chanting along and get you into the music – I would challenge anyone to sit still throughout this music! On Your Own (but not alone) follows on and keeps everything firmly hard and heavy, the guitars leading the way into a section of spat vocal lines, rolling drums and enough bass to wake up the entire street. What I love immediately about these track is how punk based they are, yet they’re more refined than a simple tag like that, the rock elements which have been added in elevate this to something new, something which is going to come to your town and leave it as dust!
Give It All keeps everything very much on the side of ‘lets rock this joint’, building into the track before kicking into a track that Social Distortion would be proud to call their own. Hard and heavy once again, this is music which is made for the live scene, and I’m not sure the recording does it 100% justice. This seems to be the same within Come Back, another track which is built to get you moving and circling with the crowds, you can almost picture the pits as the track progresses. As if to solidify this image, Getaway Boy continues the album forwards and once again gets you out of your seat and pogoing around the room like a lunatic. What’s striking about the recordings here is that they’re so rough, yet so well put together, it’s got that authentic sound if that makes sense!
Don’t Need Your Lies, A Song For Jonas and Let Me In all do pretty much what it says on the tin, opening fast and drum heavy whilst making sure that there’s lyrics catchy enough to get you singing along throughout. This is punk sure, but this is authentic punk rather than the modern stuff which people call punk, it’s got that rough feeling to it which is going to engage old and new fans alike. The award for the best song title ever though has to go to penultimate track Cunts Don’t Play Guitar, a track which almost sounds softer than the ones before it yets holds all of the power which has become the trademark of the band throughout the album. I’m not sure the style of the song matches the title, but hell, who cares with such an awesome song title!
Closing the album with Spanish Rose, everything turns to a far more indie rock direction and almost softens up, as far as the album goes it’s a bit of an anti-climax to be honest, almost as if by the time they got to this point they’d worn themselves out. As a track, there’s nothing wrong with it, I’m just not sure it closes the album as they’d hope!
I didn’t know what to expect from a band called Vietcong Pornsurfers, especially with song titles such as Cunts Don’t Play Guitars, but actually this album is pretty cool! There’s the raw elements of punk throughout the album, as well as more advanced rock moments, all of which combine to form an album which is catchy and accessible, and one which I know I’ll be listening to again!
To find out more about the Vietcong Pornsurfers, check out their MySpace page HERE.