It's been a great 2019 for punk music so far, the opening quarter of the year has seen plenty of killer releases. If you're a pop punk fan then the next few days on this blog you'll be pleased to see me feature bands from the Monster Zero Records roster. Based in Austria and run by Kevin "Aper" Stout they've been putting out some of the genre's best music and over the next 3 days I'll be illustrating how they're keeping up those high standards.
First up, a song that I was certain I'd already posted but which I'd only played on the show. It's the lead track on the recent 2nd ep from Malmo 4 piece The Hangups. They formed in 2015 and I featured their debut ep here : https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-hangups-addicted.html. They play late 90's/early 2000's style pop punk in the style of Screeching Weasel & The Parasites etc and after a couple of changes they line up with Ale (guitar/vocals), Hugo (bass/backing vocals), Poffe (drums) and Ludvig (guitar/backing vocals). They're one of my favourite new pop punk bands and you can get more info on them here : https://www.facebook.com/thehangupssux/
The new ep is called No Expectations, it's comprised of 4 catchy brain worms and it's available on black & blue splatter 7" vinyl (ltd to 300 copies) https://monsterzerorecords.com/products/hangups-the-no-expectations-7 as well as digitally : https://monsterzerorecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-expectations
This is the lead song, I can hear echoes of Teenage Bottlerocket running through the intro before Ale starts singing about nothing making sense to him as he's losing his mind in a world that feels upside down. The catchiest pop punk song of 2019 so far? Probably! This is timeless stuff guaranteed to get your feet moving. It's called Stupid World...
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