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Review: 'Ultrabomb'
'Time To Burn'   

-  Label: 'Ultrabomb Records'
-  Genre: 'Punk/New Wave' -  Release Date: '27.5.22.'

Our Rating:
UltraBomb are a new Punk Souper Group and are the band that Jamie Oliver jumped ship from the UK Subs to join as drummer, alongside Finny McConnell from The Mahones and Greg Norton from Husker Du. Time To Burn was recorded in Berlin and is the band's debut album, they will be touring from the end of June onwards.

The album opens with the title track time to Burn and Ultra Bomb sound like a band with that name ought to! Yep, they are modern anthemic punk pop with good guitars and urgent vocals, this rages away nicely.

Fear Your Gods is a good stop start loud quiet song, to make sure you know who to fear and who to welcome into your world, Jamie Olivers' drums are pinpoint as you'd expect, they are the driving force on this song, as Finny Mc Connell does all the fun stuff on guitar.

Star seems to want to re-work the ideas on Torme's Star for a more modern audience, especially Greg Norton's daughter who the song is written for, they pretty much pull it off with Finny McConnell's vocals telling us about the pain you could suffer, if you're just a shooting Star, but not in the Lou Reed sense of that phrase, as they try to go as far as possible.

I Can Make It sounds like a frantic dash to try to catch the last train home after a gig as they try to avoid all the implications of not making it. The vocals go a little bit Gillan in places but with looser trousers.

Feels takes one of those modern phrases that confuse old gits like me when the yout talk about the Feels, this avoids such confusion being just a good fizzing almost punk ballad, or just a slightly slower song with a tres cool guitar part.

The bands debut single is next Stickman V Hangman is super speedy adrenal punk with some slower more phased parts that build towards the songs messy denouement as we figure out which side of the divide we are on.

Faded Way is totally driven by Greg's bass and Jamie's drums as they all hope to never have Faded Away as Finnie goes out on one with a sizzling very fluid solo.

Bang Punk sounds like its precision tooled to get a pit going too as they tell tales of the good old bad old days.

Super Hero Shit is another full on anthemic Punk song as they are in search of the Super Hero than can save them from everything going on around them, and he'll do it with the power of an electric guitar and some effects pedals battling against an out of control drummer and a precision bass player.

Like the wind is played at somewhere between Hurricane and Tornado pace, this doesn't give up and will get everyone bouncing around to it.

They close with a very good version of the Rocket From The Tombs classic Sonic Reducer that's good and greasy with Finny's vocals going somewhere between Crocus Behemoth and Jello Biafra while still making them sound a bit Dead Boys along the way, a very good version of a song I have far too many versions of.


Find out more at https://ultrabombmusic.com/ https://ultrabomb.deco.ink/ https://www.facebook.com/ultrabombmusic



  author: simonovitch

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