Still Shaking – Relax Friends

Dropping pop-punk into my ears is a thing that happens on a very regular basis, it does most of the time have the effect nowadays of getting the reaction “oh no not another Sum 41/Blink 182 sound alike band”, but then on occasion the hitting of the play button is rewarded with something that gives a lot more, a fresh slant on this genre that just you didn’t thing was possible. Enter Still Shaking, a Norwegian outfit that have taken what can be one of my favourite genres of punk and hit new heights of listenability. Relax Friends is the album that should propel these guys near to the top of a very big pile of bands.   ‘Anxious And Airwaves’ is the song that hits your ears first, and it could have been curtains for this album before the end of the first verse, it initially sound like this co...

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