Brand New

Artist: Brand New
Album: The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)
Label: Interscope

Brand New’s latest release (and follow up to ‘Deja Entendu’), ‘The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me’ opens with 'Sowing Season (Yeah)' that warps you into the dark and desperate lyrical world of singer/songwriter, Jesse Lacey. Lacey delivers the song with haunting growls that cut through your soul and in perfect illustration, reverberates the entire record’s ‘sound’ that leaves nothing but a lasting impression.

The album delves deeper into Lacey’s psyche through cryptic and intensely personal lyrics in “Millstone” (a personal favourite), and unexpectedly terrifies you with the chilling requiem that is epically sad, “Limousine (MS Rebridge)”.

Expect a creation that is far beyond anything that any band in this scene is currently creating, there is genius in each song...just don’t expect to be dancing to this record. It is desolate and eerily honest with a smidgen of subtle hope. This record deserves global recognition beyond the underground music scene.

This is how rock music is meant to sound. It's not perfect. But it is genius.

Paramore

Artist: Paramore
Album: All We Know Is Falling (2005)
Label: Fueled By Ramen

Avril who?...is what you’ll be saying once you’ve been exposed to 17 year old Hayley Williams, singer/songwriter and front-woman of alternative pop/rock band Paramore.

They’re young but not at all restless. The five-piece band had worked tirelessly to sign with the well-known Fueled By Ramen label (alongside Fall Out Boy) in 2005. Paramore have without a doubt created one of the best and most underrated album in “All We Know Is Falling”, which the band describes the album as energetic, emotional and fun.

Existing in the world as a teenager has never been easy. And dealing with the trials and tribulations of love ('My Heart' and 'Let This Go'), friendship ('Conspiracy'), aspirations ('Franklin'), life ('Pressure' and 'Emergency') and loss ('Brighter') are all key ingredients to the mix making an album that’s simply one of the best. Hayley’s emotional yet mature and powerful vocals will pull at your heartstrings and stay with you long after the songs cease.