{"id":5013,"date":"2019-05-05T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2019-05-02T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T09:19:21","slug":"corner-boys-waiting-for-2020-drunken-sailor-records-dirt-cult-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5013","title":{"rendered":"Corner Boys – Waiting For 2020 ( Drunken Sailor Records \/Dirt Cult Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Oh yeah, Canada is killing it again on the power pop stakes.\u00a0 Trust me there is no other country on the planet churning out top-notch power pop quite like Canada.<\/p>\n

I’ve reviewed Corner Boys singles\u00a0before and when I heard they had an album in the can it was a no brainer.\u00a0 Imagine Buzzcocks and Undertones mashed up with some New Wave and rolled it into the modern age and whilst these cats doff their caps to their forefathers in punk rock they have just about handcrafted a whole bunch of awesome power pop.\u00a0 Superbly crafted punk rock songs played at pace with melody and equal amounts\u00a0of angst and loud sharp guitars.\u00a0 Songs like ‘Lies And Excuses’ throw some punchy bass lines into the mix along with some\u00a0Gatlin\u00a0gun drum rolls.\u00a0 Damn Corner Boys have got it all.<\/p>\n

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Spit and snot aplenty there is a triumphant fist-pumping we know we’re great thing happening here. Seriously playing this record through had me comparing it to Cyanide Pills for quality on quality on quality and so it goes.\u00a0 You keep waiting for the next tune to drop off and you tut that they weren’t really the best thing since sliced bread but it doesn’t happen the title track is a much more juvenile snotty pogo through the best of SLF whereas ‘Norman’ is just a massive sugar rush on a rolling guitar lick in a similar vein as the Briefs and The Stitches or at least if you love them you have a fair idea where these cats are coming from.\u00a0 It’s not complicated its just great fucking songs one after the other from start to finish. If there is a complaint its there are only ten songs on here and that’s it.\u00a0 They’ve really mainlined the lyrical quality and melody of the late great Pete Shelley on ‘Guilty Galaxy’ No I don’t know what it’s about but it doesn’t matter I was too busy jumping up and down trying to get in time with the music.<\/p>\n

‘(I’m such A) Mess’ is like the best Briefs song they never wrote and ‘Don’t Come Back’ is more Buzzcocks that Buzzcocks which is a great place to be.\u00a0 I love that bands from thousands of miles away really just get it whatever it is they get “it” enough to go into a studio and just have a bunch of fun hacking out tunes faster than the last one and doing it well.\u00a0 sure Corner Boys won’t ever get inducted into any stupid hall of egos but they’ll make their way into a bunch of really fucking cool record collections of like-minded people who just get it as well.\u00a0 Why not be one of those people and let a little sunshine into your life and get yourself some Corner Boys punk rock n roll because its simply excellent stuff now ‘Tell Me’ What You Waiting For?<\/p>\n

Buy ‘Waiting For 2020’\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n