RECENZIJA: Quickstrike “None Of A Kind”

This week’s hottest news on the domestic record front is the debut album of the hard & heavy band “Quickstrike”, which is available on digital platforms and even in CD format, which, in addition to ten tracks released in the standard version, includes another song “Moonlight Days” not available elsewhere.

Last year, the band signed to Rockshots Records and immediately got to work with amazing vigor, recalling themselves from time to time with a new single and a clip (three in total).

“We are very pleased and proud that we can finally hand over the full album to the listeners. With the first three singles, we have already made a significant noise both in Latvia and abroad, and gained a significant amount of fans. We have read various reviews, so we are interested in how the audience will perceive everything else we have prepared. The album is quite versatile, so we are sure that everyone can find a song, lyrics or feeling that speaks to it, ”the musicians hope.

The album was recorded with Ģirts Laumanis or Lomika in his Hodila Records studio. With “None Of A Kind” we said everything that had to be expressed at that time – unadulterated emotions, real experiences and feelings that sound best expressed in songs, and the listeners will definitely be able to feel and hear it. We have experienced, learned and learned a lot in the process of creating the album, and it has improved us as a group and also as personalities. It is a strong foundation for what we are today – with its sound, attitude and ready for the next big step. We have already prepared the next act, our work has just begun! ” sola group.

BY. Western music viewers call Aerosmith and Guns N ‘Roses, and the native TVNet news of the album begins with “Opus Pro” – hardly any exact comparisons, but Quickstrike’s associations are really American. In the late 80’s and early 90’s “hard & heavy” and glemrock, but the closest parallels would probably be drawn with the band “LA Guns”. Energetic and loud old school heavy rock, which would be good to listen to with a can of beer in your hands, moving the back of your leather pants and shaking your hair at an open-air rock festival. From the soundtrack on the Quickstrike album, I would like to single out “Saint” and “Rebel Radio”, as well as “Real Rock Disaster”, “Shut Them Down” and “Cheats n ‘Liars”. Vocalist level, solo guitarist also struggle, drummer layer like a woodcutter – everything is coming!

PRICE. Moving away from judgments about whether someone still listens to this kind of “hard & heavy” these days, the main problem with Quickstrike is the lack of memorable songs. OK, they play well, energetically and diligently, but now and then ?! Somehow don’t pull.

–