Upside Down Man – Looking Up

This debut album by Calgary’s Upside Down Man has me in a bit of a quandary, this is an age old question of mine and when I hear music that is touted as skate punk, for some reason, this is not what I’m expecting, as in Rock of the Bullet For My Valentine style, am I wrong?, have I got totally the wrong idea of what Skate Punk should be, I have Sum 41 or Good Riddance in mind, so when pure rock sounding bands hit the airwaves and out touted as this genre, I struggle to get that connection, please feel free to put me right or tell me I’m wrong at any point. All that said what’s in a genre, this is only a way that we pigpen hole music to help us all decipher whether or not we might take a listen, so just actually forget all I’ve just said and get your ears around the latest album ‘Looking Up...

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