Our Lives In Cinema Return With The ‘All Talk’ EP.
Our Lives In Cinema – London, England, United Kingdom.
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A London band recently signed to local and growing label Umlaut Records, Our Lives In Cinema have just released their second EP to follow up their stellar eponymous release born from the influence the last thirty years of Punk, Emo and Pop-Punk music has given us. The band’s debut bridged early 2000’s Post-Hardcore and it’s latter and ill-fated Emo cousin along with nods to bands such as Rise Against, Alkaline Trio and the poppier climes of the – apparently – never going to stop New Found Glory. No bias there I promise.
Our Lives In Cinema indeed do the Pop-Punk and crooning Emo melodies well but instead on the back of mature song writing and a clear penchant for heavier stylistics borrowed from their considerable pool of aforementioned influences. Onward then…
‘It’s Always Sunny In Patterson Park’ is a song of growing pains, growing pains that you’d be foolish to simply confine to your teenage years. The track instantly takes you to a realm of fast 90’s Pop-Punk-infused Skate Punk in a track painfully honest and shameless in its use of classic Pop-Punk stylistics. Vocally it leans towards the US-led side of genre but with the ferocity and intensity of our home grown vocal chords. *Warning contains Rum-Ham*.
The band’s previous effort flirted with up-tempo Melodic Hardcore with comparisons to both Polar Bear Club and Rise Against clear and with the middling track of this new release, the band are at their best yet. ‘Talk You Up’ carries Skate Punk guitar-lines interweaved expertly through the harsher and heavier approach OLIC are taking for this track, which contrasts even more starkly with the up-beat nature of rest of All Talk.
That’s not to say that the lovers of the band’s Pop-Punk inclinations wont be happy with this, as ‘Talk You Up’ has a simple yet shout-worth chorus and jagged Easycore-esque guitar work in the second verse. In fact, the way this track quite literally encapsulates OLIC’s entire sound in one song is nothing but impressive and in its third and final phase see’s the heaviest variation the band have shown us yet in equally unrestrained and melodic Punk-Rock catharsis matched only by the band’s need to push their point via rather on-point melody.
The closer of this sophomore release is really very satisfying on some very notable levels. Firstly it’s a track where Mark Bartlett and his band of merry men – or alternatively the band of merry men and and their Mark Bartlett – deliver an honest critique of the social order of things on the everyday human on this part of the rotating sphere we call home. OLIC are honest and despite a lighter-EP on the whole and still manage to hit-hard and seamlessly manage to immerse you into their croons and again, cathartic emotion.
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