CD Reviews March CD Agnostic Front - 'My Life, My Way' (Nuclear Blast)
| Agnostic Front - 'My Life, My Way' (Nuclear Blast) |
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| Written by Darrel Sutton |
| Saturday, 26 March 2011 05:00 |
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Anyway, rant over, what we have here on their 10th studio album are thirteen tracks of classic Hardcore Street Punk that distils everything that Agnostic Front have become in 2011. Opener 'City Streets' has the mix of aggression and groove that has become the staple of their sound. They were once lambasted for their change of style on both their 'One Voice' and 'Another Voice' albums, but mixing the elements of those albums with the flat-out style of 'Dead Yuppies' makes for some cracking songs. 'More Than A Memory' and 'Now And Forever' have the catchy sing-along choruses and Stigma-driven riffage that make their songs so addictive. You'll never in a million years mistake Roger Miret's vocals, and his lyrics tell the tales of urban struggle that are always so much more than just the words. I mean they're not gonna sing about dragons or come out with some cryptic smart-arse shit, are they? In 'A Mi Manera' (literally translates to "My Way", but you Frank Sinatra fans knew that anyway) they have no greater proof that they still produce absolutely peerless stuff at times and is probably one of their best songs in ages.
So there you have it, it's not original and is pretty much as untrendy as you'll get, but that should not matter two shits. 'My Life, My Way' is a shit hot album regardless of genre, trend or flavour of the fucking month. www.facebook.com/agnosticfront www.nuclearblast.de/agnosticfront
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Looking about at what some mainstream music press have been saying about 'My Life, My Way' beggars belief (and I'm being polite here as some of their reviews have been quite pathetic). In a world full of bandwagons, trends and flavours-of-the-month it's a massive comfort to have the likes of Agnostic Front still around. Having pretty much invented the Hardcore scene in the early '80s, here in 2011 they are as relevant as ever, and more importantly still turning out records that epitomise the attitude they had right at the start. Oh, and 'My Life, My Way' also happens to contain some of the best hard-edged music you'll hear this or any year. OK, it's hard to classify an AF album as original, but when you made the mould you can use it as many times as you like as far as I'm concerned. 