Vintage Crop - Gridlock

  Vintage Crop (https://www.facebook.com/vintagecropband/) are the Geelong "band of musicians" who greatly impressed early last year when they released one of 2019's best eps. It was titled Company Man and the title track featured here :   https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2019/01/vintage-crop-company-man.html

  Hopes were always going to be high for new material and those expectations have skyrocketed even further after the release of new single Gridlock. It's blazing a trail for upcoming album Serve To Serve Again which will be out on August 7th as a split release between Anti Fade Records and Upset The Rhythm. You can pre order both vinyl and digital versions here :   https://vintagecrop.bandcamp.com/

  Not departing much from their signature sound, the new song suggests that Serve To Serve Again will hopefully continue where Company Man left off. When I played it on last week's Just Some Punk Songs show someone commented that there were a few Australian bands releasing this kind of stuff but for my money, Vintage Crop are up there with the best. It's an autobiographical tale written after getting caught up in traffic on the way to a gig and it's called Gridlock...

Vintage Crop - Company Man

 

(photo : B Forde)

  2018 was a great year for Australian punk music with plenty of awesome songs from that country featuring both on this blog and on the Just Some Punk Songs show. 2019 promises to be even better (hopefully new albums by Amyl And The Sniffers and The Chats will live up to the huge expectation but will only be 2 of many great releases). One of the first out of the gate (Jan 18th) will be a new ep from Geelong 4 piece Vintage Crop. It's going to be titled Company Man and you can check out details (and find their previous releases, including excellent debut album New Age) here : https://vintagecrop.bandcamp.com/ You can also order it on vinyl from Anti Fade Records and Drunken Sailor Records.

  The line up of the band is Jack Cherry, Tyson Harper, Luke O'Brien and Tyler O'Brien. They've a few gigs lined up to promote the ep and you can get more info here : https://www.facebook.com/vintagecropband/

  Below you'll find the title track, it's a short, acerbic look at climbing the corporate ladder ("they groomed me! they trained me!"). All in all a very promising start to 2019. This is Company Man...