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Algorythms: When You Grow Up
The punks from Larvik called Algorythms calls their music skatepunk á la Blink-182 and Green Day. The band has roots in Vestfold-bands like The (Tung-I-)Ramers and Seff. They have been touring as Algorythms since December '99, and did their first gig in Oslo a couple of weeks ago, and our sources tells us they kicked good. This CD-single appeared at the end of last year, dissapeared in the Christmas-craze, before re-appearing after new-year.
For the diversity, it is cool when Norwegian punkbands appears in a less occupied end of the category. Spiky-hair-punx, but who doesn`t nessecarily have to play so fast and bruatally that you`ll need referances to braindead 80`s metal to label them.
The title-track "When You Grow Up" is a semiagressive and melodic pop-punk thing that should attract some fuzz. The composition and dynamic holds a great level, and the refrain is given a plesant lift which get filled with typical skate-backing vocals.
The lyrics lean a bit towards Ebba Grön á la "Va Ska Du Bli", and flirts with the kids` desillutioned visions about the future, and fight-for-your-rights-type-attitude.
The B-side - "Stinking Hard!" - is heavier and longer (more than four minutes), with a realativly dominating synth claimed to be home-made. Not as poppy and immediate catchy as the titletrack, and hasn`t got as great a lift in the arrangement eighter.
We look forward to the continuence, the boys has promised us an album within this year.