Yesterday I posted a song called I Don't Wanna Be A Ramone and mentioned there'd been at least 2 other Ramones related songs out this month, one of them being Hey Hey It's Dee Dee's Birthday Today by Latte+. Intending to feature something by Latte+ today it was tempting to try and lure people in by highlighting that song on this update but instead I've chosen a different one from their new album, Next To Ruin. For those of you that are unfamiliar with them, they're a 3 piece pop punk band from Empoli (Italy) featuring Chicco, Jay and Puccio and you can get more info on them here : https://www.facebook.com/lattepiupunkrock/
So, Next To Ruin. It's the follow up to the highly rated 2017 album Stitches. It's out on their own Phocomelic Music label and distributed in Europe, North America and Japan. It's available on cd and digital and you can get it here : https://lattepiu.bandcamp.com/album/next-to-ruin. It's 13 songs of 3 chord pop punk influenced by all your favourite old school bands (Ramones, Screeching Weasel, Queers, Riverdales, MTX, early Green Day etc). The production (by the band and Alessandro Sportelli) is pretty much spot on, the songs are all sub 3 minutes, all catchy, all guaranteed to please. The band have been around for over 20 years and like a fine wine they improve with age.
When featuring an album that's consistently good throughout it's not easy to single out a highlight. As well as the aforementioned Hey Hey It's Dee Dee's Birthday Today, there's also the title track (which there's an official video for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_xi0fCU77o) plus should be hits like Waiting For You, Everybody Likes Your Wife...heck they should all be hits. The song I'm going with though is Lost In Berlin...
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