Dead End Session – “A shaky first impression” On first listen, I feel like someone is trying to play a joke on me. I swear I’ve heard some of songs before. I’m thinking that this sounds to familiar and is too well recorded for me not know who this is. I looked up Dead End Session and was quick to be realizing that they were a formed from the great band “Ben Dover & the Ointments” who I found out about a few years ago.
Dead End Session doesn’t rely on bankrupt glory, nostalgia, or a facade of long-expired cool. Song after song, they just set vicious hooks, a blitzkrieg attack, and potent lyrics to soaring singer’s pile driving passion. It’s easy to take them for granted, to view “A shaky first impression” as just another red-hot album by another great European punk band. As soon as you start to listen to Dead End Session the luxurious melodies undoubtly introduce a scholarly comparisons to Bad Religion. Accordingly, they further follow the influence that any upstanding gormandizer of killer tunes and dive-bomb chord changes would follow. Personally, I would prefer to listen to this album over any Bad Religion album because of this album is genuine and isn’t filled with money influenced commercialized political views. My favorite songs on this album are “Session” and “Victimz” and would recommend this album to anybody who enjoys early Bad Religion, The Clash, Husker Du, or 7 Seconds, you will eat this album up like crack laced M & M’s. 4/5
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