{"id":9161,"date":"2019-10-28T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2019-10-26T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:06:54","slug":"hard-wax-this-is-the-sound-union-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"Hard Wax \u2013 \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 (Rebellion Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s something gloriously familiar about this second long-player from UK bovver rockers Hard Wax, something that I can\u2019t quite put my finger on, but it\u2019s something that right from the very first spin has me beaming from ear to ear, so it must be something good right?<\/p>\n

They say the make of any band is the strength of their tunes\u2026and here on \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 Wax main man Tom Boutwood (ably assisted by Paul Bond on drums, Tom Murphy on lead guitar and Matt Colton on bass) has penned some of the finest Oi! infused terrace anthems you\u2019ll hear anywhere this year. Just like the recently released Michael Monroe album it\u2019s not exactly groundbreaking or genre-bending stuff but sometimes I just need my punk rock music to be just that, straight ahead and no-frills, and right here on \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 what you get for your entry money are ten premium cuts of bovver boy rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n

Kicking off with \u2018Welcome To Bovver Rock City\u2019 this just shy of two-minute long intro bears all the hallmarks of Hard Wax\u2019s upcoming UK tour partners Giuda, albeit a Giuda fronted by someone who sounds a hell of a lot like Ginge Knievel.\u00a0\u00a0And that right there is the familiar thing I couldn\u2019t quite put my finger on at the top, because at times during \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 it\u2019s just like Mr Knievel has returned from his self-imposed exile and is finally fronting the band he\u2019s always wanted to front. The similarity really is uncanny, but trust me, there\u2019s a whole lot more to this record that the singer sounding a hell of a lot like the ex-Sick Livers\/Nicotine Pretty frontman.<\/p>\n

Things really kick off in style on \u2018Living The Dream\u2019, a proper piece of punk rock argy bargy designed to get your oxblood a-stomping. Elsewhere \u2018This is The Sound\u2019, \u2018Days Of Glory\u2019 (ooh hello Sailor) and \u2018Razor Part Rebels\u2019 (complete with an otherworldly Ace Frehley guitar riff) all steam out the blocks full of cock-sure 70s glam rock swagger and just a few spins later you\u2019ll be singing along like you\u2019ve had this album in your life since your childhood.
\nWhen the world outside your window is slowly turning to shit \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 is the perfect pick me up record with tracks like \u2018Have A Good Time\u2019 and \u2018Not Just a Pin-Up Girl\u2019 guaranteed to make you smile once again, and in \u2018Boys Of A Saturday Night\u2019 and \u2018Stomp All Over The World\u2019 you have the near perfect soundtrack for a right proper tear up\u2026on the dancefloor of course.<\/p>\n

Which just leaves \u2018In For a Penny\u2019, a track I went straight to when I first got my copy of \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 simply because I initially thought \u201cwow a Slade cover that\u2019s gonna take some balls\u201d. Well, it\u2019s actually not a cover, although the guitar riff is equal parts Hill and Holder and it\u2019s the kind of glorious call to arms tune that would have seen Hard Wax on Top Of The Pops had it been released back in the 70s.
\nWith a whole raft of great new punk rock records released by UK bands in 2019 (if you think otherwise then you really do need to read RPM more) I\u2019m delighted to say that \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 is right up there with the very best of them.<\/p>\n

Now go get your boots on and get down your record shop and get yourself a copy.<\/p>\n

Buy this is the sound Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s something gloriously familiar about this second long-player from UK bovver rockers Hard Wax, something that I can\u2019t quite put my finger on, but it\u2019s something that right from the very first spin has me beaming from ear to ear, so it must be something good right? They say the make of any band is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3851,3850,1601,3848,1787,1818,3854,1710,1827],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-bovver-boys","tag-bully-bones","tag-giuda","tag-hard-wax","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-new-album","tag-rebellion-records","tag-rpm-online","tag-this-is-the-sound","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9191,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}