Song of The Week #8 "I Don't Love You" by Honeywheeler

If you’ve heard the tune already, 95% of you will all agree, The lyrics are more than true. A perfect chorus to scream out load while having a drink with your mates. I can say with confidence, I know exactly what the singer speaks off lyrically.

Honeywheeler is a fantastic Perth grunge rock band fronted by Angel Vox. A fresh, interesting group bringing back some the better parts of 1990’s music. With their EP release not far away, they’ve been gigging around town at such places as The Paddo.

“I don’t love you” is one of their first releases and has a reminiscent “I’m just a girl” feel to it. Incredibly catchy lyrics that had me hooked from the first verse coupled with a persistent fast paced guitar melody. All I wanted to do after hearing this track was head home with some hubbabubba, sugared coke bottles, 3 bottles of Passion Pop and a copy of Ten things I hate about you.

Although the tempo instrumentally has a frantic, crazy “F the world” beat to it. Miss Vox adds a fantastic element with her unrestrained, even tempered and carefree tone.
My only recommendation for improvement? In some areas, the vocals are drowned out by the slick guitar rifts and accomplished drum line. Perfected lyrics such as these need to be on the forefront of the tune.
I don’t love you is a great little tune, perfected by the kind of group that you could easily see yourself heading down to The Bakery, Oh Snap! or perhaps The Republic on occasion to see.
Guys may not be a plenty within the crowd, but you’ll find lots of chicks with attitude
You can just imagine how great this groups set would be live.

Happy Listening,
Ashala Svetlana

You can download your copy of "I Don't Love You" here

Song of the Week #7 What We've Become by Mattersville

Up and coming 5 piece pop-punk band, Mattersville, released their debut album late last year and have just recently been added to Perth Sound and Founds compilation Cd.

One of Mattersvilles’ tracks, What We’ve Become, is a great display of what this band has to offer showing off many different aspects of themselves, from the acoustic intro to the up-beat ending. Mattersville are an impressive band presenting themselves very professionally and producing a high quality sound and what We’ve Become is a very catchy song featuring interesting guitar hooks, upbeat tempos and a few decent solos.

I’m positive we will be hearing a lot more from Mattersville in the future,

And if you want to hear more of Mattersville download ‘What We’ve Become’ HERE!

Song of the Week #6 - Scream and Silence by Sticky Sweet

Since Sticky Sweet’s EP launch they have skyrocketed, being added to Perth Sound and Founds’ compilation CD, playing a bunch of gigs and just recently getting into Gozzy Rock.

Scream and Silence, the track that was added to the compilation album, in my opinion is a very well written and played song. As you can understand from the title and the lyrics I was told “The song is about the end of the world and how the screams of innocents go unheard”, which is a very strong theme to write a song about. Scream and Silence featured very cool riffs, drums beats, vocals and great dynamics which are always good to hear from a 3 piece band.

Scream and Silence is a great song, and Sticky Sweet in general have impressed me in how they got to where they are now in a matter of less than a year. I look forward to hearing more from these guys.

Give Sticky Sweet some support in Gozzy Rock and get your copy of Scream and Silence HERE!

Song of the week #5 - Morphine by The Dark Woods

The Dark Woods, the four piece alternative/rock/funk band from Perth, has recently released their debut album.

Their album contains 4 tracks and from the moment I heard ‘Morphine’, I was amazed, from the quality of the musicians, and the overall quality of the recording itself. ‘Morphine’ was one of these songs that from the start had me smiling and ‘bopping’ along to that bass line. The Dark Woods list of influences is massive, spanning from artists such as Weezer and Tom Waits yet their influence can still be seen throughout the song by their use of dynamics and creativity with their music.

It’s great to see a local band doing their own thing and putting such creativity into their music and I really do hope to see more of The Dark Woods really soon.

You can get your free copy of ‘Morphine’ HERE!

Song of the week #4 - Dance Macabre by New Erotic

New Erotic, a 4 piece alternation punk band has recently released their debut album ‘Jellyfriends’.

‘Dance Macabre’ starts off with a beautiful intro which transitions into the body of the song with ease. ‘Dance Macabre’ adding up to 6 and a half minutes features many different aspects which are blended gracefully, filled with great vocals and great instrumentation with a lot of variety. Deep lyrics that tell a story that is sung with a lot of emotion is great to hear and it can be seen how New Erotic draws from bands such as AFI and Brand New.

Words really can’t describe this song and all its aspects and I can’t wait to hear more. New Erotic have done a great job putting so much emotion to this song, creating the atmosphere along with it.

Listen to it for yourself HERE.

Song of the week #3 - Now or Never by Fatal Intentions

Fatal Intention, a 4 piece hardcore band from Perth, have just released their debut EP.

‘Now or Never’, the 4^th track of their EP, is a great example of Fatal Intentions style that draws from artists such as Stick To Your Guns and Black Flag. ‘Now or Never’ starts with a quick intro that flows into a simpler “air-y” verse, then brings us back up for the chorus. An awesome use of dynamics in the verse, chorus and bridge and great instrumentation was my focus. Although I don’t listen to very much hardcore I did find myself enjoying this song. The only real negative aspect I found when listening to the track was the quality of the record particularly the vocals, but this was only a minor problem.

Great musicians, and great song writers. I think we will be definitely being seeing more from Fatal Intentions

Click here for your free download of 'Now or Never'