{"id":1556,"date":"2021-01-27T08:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:51:14","slug":"new-album-cereal-milk-cereal-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/new-album-cereal-milk-cereal-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: Cereal Milk || Cereal Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the moment I got into punkrock and hardcore back in the mid-nineties, I don’t think I ever fully grasped the concept of emo<\/a>. To my ears, most of the music I was listening to oozed emotion. Whether it was anger, angst, hate, love, melancholy, hope(lessness) or feeling left out, I always felt that the best punk and hardcore bands have that emotional edge: they feel real, and whatever emotions they convey, they feel authentic, making them stand out from most mainstream music. As such, I struggle considering emo to be a distinct genre, but rather an almost necessary element of great punk and hardcore music. Perhaps this explains why I’ve taken an immediate liking to the self-titled record of Cereal Milk. Here is a band that literally is leaving it all out there: Cereal Milk no longer is a band and this posthumous record will be their final release. Some of its songs have been previously released, for example on the 2017 Amazing Singer Record comp<\/em> by Emotional Response<\/a>. Cereal Milk<\/em> is an intense though melodic record, with a singer absolutely singing his heart out. It’s a dynamic record, with plenty of palm muting, cool guitar riffs, and well timed tempo and soft-loud variations. Shoutout to Californian label Phat ‘n’ Phunky<\/a> for putting this out.<\/p>\n

then, as they dropped the gates \/\/ and the bets were placed \/\/ your’s was against me \/\/ like some insider trade \/\/ you were privy to my fate \/\/ i’m the horse with the broken leg<\/em><\/p>\n