BeerwolfYear Of The Dog

Recently added to the shelves of Resist Records is the latest LP from Beerwolf, aptly titled Year of The Dog.

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Released on 27^th September, the Sydney five-piece have compiled songs that touch on political themes with Australian punk that reverberate throughout the album.

Setting the pace with their opening song Eat Shit, vocalist Pete Wood growls his fevered lyrics through a barrage of Simon Wiltshire’s speedy bass hooks that are wrangled by Nick Yates and Adrian Kelly‘s ferocious guitar riffs.

Wiltshire drives the melody during We Owe Money with drummer Jason Watroba’s thunderous beats, that combined enhance Wood’s vocals that shatter the airwaves as he spits lyrics into the microphone like wildfire.

Soon erupting with a stampeding melody during Rust And Decay, a light within the verses shines on feelings of helplessness which are accompanied by choruses that’ll bruise punters upon hearing it at Beerwolf’s next live gig.

Sell The Space provides an intrinsic momentum before fading into what the soundtrack of Tetris collaborated with Pacman would probably sound like; an electronic whirlwind. The album then spirals into Preying On The Weak, which is filled with intermittent breakdowns and gradual build-ups that offer respite to the intensity of the track as the guitars slow into a strumming that fades to a close. Soon erupting with a stampeding melody during Rust And Decay, a light within the verses shines on feelings of helplessness which are accompanied by choruses that’ll bruise punters upon hearing it at Beerwolf’s next live gig.

Beginning with thrashy punk beats in Yeah Nah, We Get It, the song somehow ends with jazzy drum patterns that’s created this powerhouse of a track which diversifies itself within less than one minute. Wild!

From the distortion within Dirty Scene, we’re then spat into the fury of To Hell With It before closing with Violins; a scathing outro that includes voice overs of fragmented inspiration to remind us that “It was about us against the system. The system that kills the human spirit.”

STANDOUT TRACKS: We Owe Money, Preying on The Weak, Dirty Scene.
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