{"id":12741,"date":"2020-09-01T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12741"},"modified":"2020-08-29T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:26:09","slug":"pardon-us-seamless-everything-sucks-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12741","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Us &#8211; &#8216;Seamless&#8217; (Everything Sucks Music)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13184 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1997901093_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Back for more this impressive trio from the North West who really impressed me with their &#8216;Wait&#8217; album and they start this follow up with a hugely impressive &#8216;Undertow&#8217; with its classic period Buffalo Tom flavours and pandemic punchy lyrics.\u00a0 they&#8217;ve got a great sound and really know how to bring it out to the benefit of the songs as &#8216;Still Need Singing&#8217;. A sprightly tempo thrashing around the speakers and as the refrain of &#8220;This Voice Is All We Have&#8221; through a fractured strain is powerful and really engaging.<\/p>\n<p>The melodic punk punch of &#8216;What Doesn&#8217;t Kill Me&#8217; is blisteringly good. But one thing for sure Pardon Us aren&#8217;t hanging around as one track clashes into the next and they leer from one with a strong riff to one with a strong melodic chorus, theirs is a great turn of phrase to a great gang vocal sing-along chorus but its not all bluster and bravado some of the guitar solos are restrained and thoughtful &#8216;To, Two, Too&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a jour de Vivre about a lot of this record &#8211; a confidence in what it is they&#8217;re doing.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s fair to say Pardon Us knows how good they are.\u00a0 &#8216;Safety Net&#8217; is a powerful bass chug that is layered with a sprightly off-kilter beat towards the chorus when the chords jar to what is a great song. Not a million miles from the honest wholesome Billy Liar songwriting school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In The Loop&#8217; has a video to accompany it and it seems an obvious choice for a single but then you could pick anything off this album its all pretty accessible.\u00a0 If these were Americans they&#8217;d be a big noise on the punk alternative scene with the likes of Bad Religion &#8211; I kid you not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I guess hashtagging themselves as melodic punk is a bit of a disservice they&#8217;re more than that and this album signs off with a thoughtful &#8216;The Last Word&#8217; a perfect way to sign off another hugely impressive outing from Pardon Us &#8211; do yourself a favour and don&#8217;t pass them by, stop have a listen &#8211; check em out and thank me later.\u00a0 Buy it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Buy Seamless <a href=\"https:\/\/pardonus.bandcamp.com\/album\/seamless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wearepardonus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V0SgW3bxILI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back for more this impressive trio from the North West who really impressed me with their &#8216;Wait&#8217; album and they start this follow up with a hugely impressive &#8216;Undertow&#8217; with its classic period Buffalo Tom flavours and pandemic punchy lyrics.\u00a0 they&#8217;ve got a great sound and really know how to bring it out to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2756],"class_list":["post-12741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-pardon-us","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}