It’s like the perfect combinatation of sweet and sour as it captures Soupy’s ability to blend emotion with brutal honesty. That’s a long time. "Auf Widersehen" is a terrific invitation towards the completion of Railer. All told, … They might have taken a number of hiatuses over the what is now a near thirty-year career but the fire inside them to create good, honest punk rock has never died. Kay Hanley-Wikipedia. It doesn’t matter how fast the years pass or how many grey hairs and wrinkles appear, play it at a party and within a minute everyone is doing their best impersonation of Steve Buscemi from 30 ROCK, baseball cap on backwards and board over the shoulder. LAGWAGON railer (2019/FAT WRECK CHORDS) MELODYCORE/PUNK. Railer immediately hooks the listener with the thoughtful slow building starter "Stealing Light," showcasing the strengths of every instrumental member of the group in the first thirty seconds. It’s music for those who refuse to let their youth leave them and LAGWAGON are one of the best around at doing it. Liam is at Slam Dunk Festival where he sat down with Joey Cape.. Lagwagon have shared plans to release a new record. It’s accompanied by the gentle guest vocals of singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson and the two make for a nice little duet before the song picks up the pace into an angry full-fledged punker. Russ Russell - vocals, guitars, synths (AT THE GATES, DIMMU BORGIR, NAPALM DEATH) Shane Embury - vocals, guitars (NAPALM DEATH, BRUJERIA) Dirk Verbeuren - drums (MEGADETH, SOILWORK) Download Links: DOWNLOAD If you are having trouble downloading the album, try turning off Adblock, or try another browser. The phrase ‘growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional’ embodies the spirit of skate punk. Produced by Fat Mike of NOFX, with guest vocals by Aimee Interrupter (The Interrupters) and Josh Waters Rudge (The Skints). All good! In #31 I get to talk to Joey Cape, the lead singer of Lagwagon, guitarist in Me First And The Gimme Gimmes and solo artist. This song is catchy as all hell! You might not know that he was also the lead vocalist for the experimental group, 'Bad Astronaut', until they disbanded due to the death of two drummers. , Railer. Sure, it sounds like it could have been released in the early 2000’s and nobody would have noticed, but that’s the joy of this style of punk; its reputation for being utterly timeless grows year on year. 1. The beautiful acoustic sound, incredible vocals, leaves me feeling hopeful for a better tomorrow. Starting out as a one writer endeavour in 2014, the website has grown to an eight person team. They open this album with the important question “what’s another word for fuck? When we released the album in 2010 we did a song-by-song introduction to the album, including guest contributions by people that did guest vocals, recorded it, released it, and other friends! Not Lagwagon, not even close. Yellowcard was an American rock band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and were based in Los Angeles beginning in 2000. Hamburg-based Tragedian have released the single "Bringer Of Dreams" from their forthcoming album, Seven Dimensions. This is a perfect way to end an excellent album. Joey has always been able to emote the most tragic deliveries of lyrics while still offering an open hand of hope. Like nearly every song it has string sections, pianos, flutes and other various orchestrated instruments that help provide a cheery background for Crosby’s signature voice. That heavy bass line is back with a vengeance. The beautiful acoustic sound, incredible vocals, leaves me feeling hopeful for a better tomorrow. Lagwagon Ready New Album 'RAILER,' Plot North American Tour. It would be very easy to dismiss Railer as ‘another good skate punk album’ and ‘perfectly befitting in the rest of LAGWAGON’s back catalogue’, but it’s so much more than that. It’s not just straight up punk either – Surviving California incorporates a couple of NWOBHM-style solos from Chris Flippin and Chris Rest that compliment the sound gorgeously, the beginning of The Suffering is piano and spoken word led before a riff enters that could have come straight from a METALLICA record and Parable starts and finishes with acoustic guitars, an opening vocal line supplied by Cape’s daughter Violet for good measure. This album definitely wins my favorite cover for the year. That heavy bass line is back with a vengeance. Lagwagon has a great way of nailing their album covers which really speaks to the overall theme of each one. Rather, it serves as a reminder that there still lives a snotty, spotty boy inside each one of LAGWAGON that just wants to play up and cause mischief, despite the need to have a more adult outlook on life . This album also, perhaps under the quick writing process, is sprinkled with more of a live-band dynamic, inviting, until now irregular, exchanged lead vocal spots from guitarist Chris Rest and bassist Joe Raposo. The twelve song LP, produced by Cameron Webb (Alkaline Trio, Motörhead,) was admittedly written in a much shorter amount of time than the majority of the band's more recent discography, and the result is fresh, invigorating, thrashers; successfully tapping into their earlier sound while remaining tethered to the experience and methodical growth that has kept them relevant for over three decades. The opener jumps into "Surviving California," filled with pitted technical drums and guitars leads reminiscent of early 90's albums "Trashed" or "Duh." What’s notable is that, whilst the music may not have changed significantly, the lyrical content has certainly shifted from boisterous cheek to something more reflective; even lead single Bubble, which manages to include “milk, milk, lemonade” doesn’t come across as infantile or behind the times. Outside of this, the likes of Pray for Them and Fan Fiction are much more brooding, showing a maturity that is needed to ensure the genre can remain relevant despite its throwback sound. First recorded in 1942, the song also features some guest female vocals and light orchestration. American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1996 by lead singer Alex Band and guitarist Aaron Kamin. I had so much fun talking to him about "Railer" and just listening to what he has to share after more than 30 years of being a songwriter, musician, producer and member of one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time. It is a nice departure from the rest of the album and brings a bit of levity on our way out. Out now, once again via Fat Wreck Chords, is Railer, their first album for five years and ninth studio recording overall. Composition. It works well for Lagwagon and most of us are actually fans of the band. RAILER TRACKLIST. For years I pitched it to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and it wasn’t enthusiastically received. '” … Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Access Our Digital Issues Through Patreon, Acolyte release new music video for ‘Entropy’, Sumo Cyco announce new album ‘Initiation’, ALBUM REVIEW: Ghost Tapes #10 – God Is An Astronaut. Titled RAILER, the pop-punk lifers' first … Punk veterans Lagwagon return with a brand new studio album simply titled “Railer”. The 12 track releases which is being released via Fat Wreck Chords as was produced by Cameron Webb is the follow up to the bands 2014 release “Hang” which marked the bands return to the studio after a nine year lapse. for fans of: good riddance, farside, snfu, lagwagon, dag nasty and gameface. MewithoutYou (stylized as mewithoutYou) is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The band consists of Aaron Weiss (vocals), Michael Weiss and Brandon Beaver (guitars), Greg Jehanian (bass guitar) and Rickie Mazzotta (drums). But then, that wouldn’t be punk, would it? Lagwagon have shared plans to release a new record. He’s released records with Lagwagon, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Joey Cape’s Bad Loud, Bad Astronaut and of course under his own name. For those who have kept up with the explosion of younger punk outfits like CREEPER and MARMOZETS, LAGWAGON have shown on Railer exactly where those influences lie. The positive glimmer, however, is cut short into "Parable," handing a bleak vocal intro to Cape's daughter Violet before shredding into another 120 seconds of angry punk rock. Both singers compliment each other very well, but they never sound better than when they are flawlessly harmonizing together.