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Last year, the sensational album “All or Nothing“ was released. I also reviewed this album for ramtatta.de. The link to the review is: http://www.ramtatta.de/s/reviews/f/details/id/3974/
This album has everything that defines PENNYWISE and simply shows what the band is.
A damn great punk rock band.
Now, not even 1 ½ years later, the band is back at it. They apparently don't want to just build on the success of the 2012 album; instead, they dug deep into the archives and found songs that were played 25 years ago but never recorded. Since every song by PENNYWISE is a good song, the band decided to finally record these tracks.
What has come out is a record with eleven songs.
All the songs hit hard. The band plays the songs just as you would expect. In very good quality, the songs come out of the speakers in typical PENNYWISE fashion. What is interesting is the fact that the songs somehow sound as if they were actually recorded several years ago. It may be that I'm just imagining this, but others who have listened have expressed the same suspicion. This is all the more astonishing considering that the band has only just recorded the songs, even though they have been around for many years and interestingly sound that way.
However, this does not mean that the album is outdated. It is a PENNYWISE album through and through. Songs that were previously categorized more in the hardcore corner, as they belong to the second or third hardcore wave, like “Am Oi“ or “Violence Neverending“, are found on the album just as much as songs that today are considered typical punk rock from the USA or even indie-punk.
So with “Yesterday“, PENNYWISE has created not only a really good album but also a time travel that everyone who has even a slight connection to punk rock should embark on. It’s also not a problem if the album ultimately doesn’t reach the heights of “All or Nothing“. You simply can’t always create a masterpiece.
