Corker - Distant Dawn (Guest Review By Paul Charles Hammond)

  

  Last September, regular contributor Ralph Rivera recommended we check out A Fitting Compensation by Corker "possibly the MOST "Modern" sounding record of 2023."    https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2023/09/corker-fitting-compensation-guest.html

  Today, Punk AF (https://www.mixcloud.com/punkafradio/) host Paul Hammond is equally impressed by the band's follow up release...

  A couple of hours before doing my Punk AF show this week I got several ‘Bandcamp’ notifications about new releases. This late in the day I would normally roll these into the following week but this time I decided to check a few out. I saw that ‘Corker’ from Cincinnati had released a new track called ‘Distant Dawn’.

  I’ve heard and played the band before and thought they were OK, the album ‘Falser Truths’ was a mixed bag of cross genres and styles without any defining identity for me. ‘Distant Dawn’ blew me away instantly, 3 minutes of fast paced, guitar driven punk rock, full of hooks and very well produced. This is a very distinctive defining sound and I hope this is the direction they go.

  Their Bandcamp says it’s a first taste of their new album coming this year. If this track is anything to go by then, like the band name it will be a corker! https://corker.bandcamp.com/track/distant-dawn

  Distant Dawn...

Corker - A Fitting Compensation (Guest review by Ralph J Rivera)

  

  It's not often that I hear a new record these days and have to immediately listen to it again because the first listen left my jaw on the floor! "Corker" from Cincinatti, Ohio have released what is possibly the MOST "Modern" sounding record of 2023.

   After releasing the amazing EP "A Bell That Seems To Mourn" in 2021 they spent the last year and a half working on the masterpiece that is "Falser Truths."  You can get the album on vinyl or as a name your price download : https://corker.bandcamp.com/album/falser-truths

  The first half of the album (1-6) is what I have no other words for except perfectly executed "Goth/Death Rock". Until you get to the 7th song "A Fitting Compensation" where they flip the switch and turn into this amazing "Post-Punk" band that destroy all genres & just close out the album with 3 songs you'll want to hear over & over again. "Sour Candy" is one of the most infectious tunes you'll ever hear. THIS may very well be a contender for "Album Of The Year". Here's the song where this album enters "God-Mode".

  A Fitting Compensation...