Sad Park - Good Luck

 

1. Who are Sad Park? 

Sad Park are an alternative emo band from Los Angeles, California. Making music since 2016 they are three albums deep at the minute and Good Luck (August, 2024) is a stand alone single. 

2. What kind of song is Good Luck? 

Good Luck is a 90's alternative rock throwback with a slight 2000's emo kick. 

3. Who do Sad Park sound like? 

Hot Mulligan, clementine, Neck Deep, Sunny Day Real Estate. 

4. Which bands have influenced Sad Park?

They have mentioned some love for bands like FIDLAR, together PANGEA, and Walkman, Pixies. 

5. What have people said about Good Luck? 

"Hard hitting summer anthem" - Thoughts Words Action. 

"Catchy" - Punk Rock Theory.

"Anthemic pop-punk energy and buoyant guitar" - Kerrang.

"Had twenty bucks,

Now I have two,

My friends all suck"

Savings - To Be Honest

1. Who are Savings? 

Good question. To be honest I don't think they gave their band name a lot of thought. It's shit and hard to Google. Savings are a pop punk band with emo roots from Albuquerque, New Mexico. To Be Honest is from their second E.P. How Do You Feel? (Aug, 2024). Which is a banger by all accounts.

2. What kind of tune is To Be Honest? 

To Be Honest is a song packed full of familiar pop punk and 90's alternative rock tropes and yet it also feels fresh. It opens treading softly with some earworm lyrics weaving a tale of lost love and when the chorus lands thirty seconds later and it's a keeper.

3. Which bands do Savings sound like? 

Hot Mulligan, Free Throw, and Right On, Kid. 

4. Which bands have influenced Savings? 

Some of their influences are Movements, Slowly Slowly, Trophy Eyes, and The Wonder Years. 

5. What have people said about Saving's music? 

"Spell-binding hooks with cathartic guitars" - Music Crowns.

"Introspective but outwardly gripping anthems" - New Noise Magazine. 

"A band hooked on pop punk and punk elements" - The Review Geek.

"I'm not in it for the long nights,

The late conversations,

But I'd still give you the moon if you let me"

The Unsleeping - Wonderland

1.    Who?

The Unsleeping are an indie rock band from Kiev, Ukraine. They have been playing together since and have a bunch of singles and a mini album, Somnia (2016) to their name. Wonderland (April’18) is a standalone single.


2. What?

Wonderland is slow throbbing, somnolent, verses that march towards a mesmerizing little chorus. But it's the pre-chorus rock out at the two minute mark that makes the song special. A head banging moment to shatter the dreamy mood before calm is once again restored. 


3. Who do The Unsleeping sound like?

The Cranberries, Coldplay and Dashboard Confessional.


4. What has been said about Wonderland?

“This tune is fucking genius” – YouTube Comments.

“Swear by God I will listen to this band until death” – YouTube Comments.

“A sea of emotions” – YouTube Comments.

5. Which bands influenced The Unsleeping?

Tyler The Creator, The Deftones, Coldplay, Three Days Grace, and We Butter Our Bread With Butter.

6. Why should I listen to Wonderland? 

How often do you listen to Ukrainian bands? The Unsleeping are something different.

7. Do The Unsleeping have any more bangers?

You Drive My Four Wheel Coffin is a perfect marriage of hip hop vocal delivery and powerful guitar.

8. Anything else?

The Unsleeping made a cover of The Neighbourhood's Sweater Weather.

Dead Favours are an alternative rock band from New Zealand. They started in 2016 and Better The Weather (March'18) is their third single. Their singer Jared Wrenall used to drum for Steriogram and the rest of the band have been around the blocks. Dead Favours recently opened for Royal Blood's two nights in N.Z. and they fucking smashed it. There's a bit of Queens Of The Stone Age meets Shihad about the band. Have a listen.