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Millencolin | Home From Home

Killer punk-pop album!
CD, Burning Heart/Epitaph

Tekst: Norbert Pek

Publicatiedatum: 01 mei 2002

Millencolin and No Fun At All have always been the most prominent bands of the Swedish punk/hardcore label Burning Heart. And they've been playing quite some years now and even experienced the so-called second punk wave. Green Day and Offspring opened the gates and even the schoolkids were dying their hair green. It resulted in a lot of attention for punk rock bands playing fast, melodic tunes in the tradition of Bad Religion. Most of the music was very replaceable, but some bands were as original as they were strong, like NoFX, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Millencolin.
At that very time Millencolin had released their second album Life On A Plate, containing not only fast, catchy songs but also a lot of ska, like in the single Story Of My Life.
Years went on and a lot of bands started to repeat themselves, and disappeared after some time; but Millencolin can always count on a lot of appreciation because of the variation in songs on their strong releases, For Monkeys and Pennybridge Pioneers, which even went gold in Australia. Their new one, Home From Home, adds another high-quality piece of work to their discography.
Press "play," and the party starts, yeah yeah yeah. Opener Man Or Mouse will surely please audiences at their live gigs, which total over a hundred after every album release, hence the album title. The band decided to put Black Eye and Kemp on the album even though they released a version of them before. Excellent choice: They are more worked out and are the strong parts. Fingers Crossed resembles the sound of the early Millencolin albums, having very personal lyrics. No politics, but stories about the person who inspired singer Nikola Sarcevic to listen to punk rock (Punk Rock Rebel), and a protest of the strong people who try to bring down the weak (Afghan). Nice melodies, good mixing (thank you producer Lou Giordano), variation in guitar effects: It will be hard to beat Millencolin this year in making the punk rock album-of-the-year.

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