Photo by Dominic Gendron, album artwork by Seb Theriault (SterioDesign)
This great band from Calgary (Alberta – Canada!) goes way back to the mid 90’s although I did not pick up on anything from them until either 2016 or 2017. This would have been their album The Revenge of the Fifth which was released in early 2016 and first heard by me on a now defunct Internet radio station. Several songs from that album (“Years,” “Red Pawn’s Race” and the tittle track) still remain in various rotations and playlists for me to this day. Getting the heads up that this single dropped on April 21st and that a new album will follow was definitely good news.
This track has a nice loud start before dropping into a strong vocal offset by a sharp drum line. Throughout the song you get a healthy dose of buzzy guitars and an aggressive bass that has a few prominent moments all to itself. Belvedere’s sound is a little more refined than prior releases but they give up nothing in regard to energy and maintain the sense of a real driving purpose behind the music. This is a really great melodic punk song and the full album will be released on June 19th via Thousand Islands Records.
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Musicians on this are: Casey Lewis (drums, vocals), Dan Wollach (guitar, vocals). Steven Rawles (vocals, guitar) and Ryan Mumby (bass, vocals).
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jack mesenbourg 