Brassneck (2025)
Leave it to Scott at Brassneck to find a way to break through the barrier to new music that has been forming around me over the last few years. It's not that I don't want to hear new things, it's just that so little tends to interest me and in turn, I become one of those cranky old guys that doesn't think there are any good new bands anymore. I'm wrong (not just about this, but in general life I'm also usually wron0 because here comes Melvic Centre with an album that knocks me off my chair.
Melvic Centre is from Australia and Trawler is their second full length album. I am very much looking to get a copy of their first self titled LP, so if you're holding, please get in touch. Trawler was initially released in Australia on Evil Tone records earlier this year, but Brassneck threw their hat in and this lovely orange vinyl version is on that fine label. Bloated Kat had some copies in America, if you want to give Instagram a shot to see if they have any left.
Back to the record at hand, this is exactly what I want to listen to. Big, chunky guitars the fuel catchy songs and vocal melodies for days. There are so many bands that I hear when I've got Trawler on. You can pick out the parts that sound a bit like Sugar, there's some nice Big Drill Car style vocals on certain songs, some hooks that remind me of Doughboys and the general 90s sounding nature of the recording makes me feel like I am absolutely the target demographic for something like this.
There's one song in the middle with a bit more yelling than I prefer ("Snake Oil"), but aside from that, Trawler is pretty perfect from start to finish. Every time I listen to it I just find myself loving it more and more. It's one of those albums that's so completely my cup of tea that I struggle to find away to accurately convey that. So I'll just say this. If you read this dumb website, you probably have a pretty decent idea of the sort of rock and roll music I tend to like. Trawler is all of those things. You really need to listen to it if you ever bother to come here and read my ramblings.
Melvic Centre - Trawler:https://brassneckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/trawler
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