Lista de los grupos Grunge Cable35 Louder

This is turning out to be a good year for the Grunge genre. It seems like we're having an international Grunge revival, here on Spirit of Metal. Cable35 are a young Maltese trio, resembling the lineup of the late great Nirvana. They've already got 2 EP's under their belts, that were both released by Meat And Greet Records. The band released this debut album last summer and it's unclear if they are still with that label. I-Tunes shows the band's copyright, instead of mentioning any label for this release. The album art simply exhibits the bottom half of a joyful face. I suspect that the artistic concept, is that the nostrils were to appear as eyes do on a hand puppet. It isn't anything fancy, but I really like it. Because the happy face embodies the cheerful spirit, that is omnipresent throughout the album. Louder features 16 short songs, ranging between 2 to 4 minutes in length, which collectively endure for about 46 minutes of fun Grunge music.

Jeff's vocals sound sort of scratchy and humble. Although he doesn't display much range, he makes up for this with the emotions that accompany the musical nuances, which occur within the different songs. He still does a very good job with that, because he gives their music an amiable character. Jeff sounds a lot like Dave Tejas from the Krum Bums, which is an American punkcore band. But Jeff's vocals sound extremely positive and optimistic; which is the exact opposite of the surly attitude of Dave Tejas.

Cable35 play a stripped down style of Grunge, with influences of Hardcore punk, and milder forms of punk; which are mixed with indie rock. Jeff plays a down tuned guitar, with choppy rhythms and dissonant melodies. The catchy power chords slash from the higher notes, then abruptly down to the lower notes, in the tradition of Nirvana's start-stop technique. Where power chords are intermingled with lighter guitar picking between them, for contrasting song dynamics.

On some songs like Can I, Come Down to Party, and Bobby Funk; Kriz plays his bass lines with groovy rhythms, that slink along upward like some of the playing methods of Kurt Danielson from Tad. Jeff will usually complement that with hip guitar licks, that resemble those by Steve Wolfensberger of Feuerzeug. Sometimes he plays some reeling guitar hooks, like we hear from Kurt Cobain, in some of Nirvana's songs. A few of their songs have a straight out 1980's punk rock approach, that sounds influenced by some of the Ramones's earlier material. Lost City is a calmer song, with gentle guitar strumming of delicate melodies. Jeff's vocals sound placid, giving it a nice atmosphere like the Smashing Pumpkins.

Louder isn't anything fancy, but I really like it. No frills rocking is what Grunge music is all about anyway. Every song rocks with a fun loving attitude. There isn't a bad track on this album and you can let it play through. They've been touring exclusively in Europe. They must have had some degree of success. Or else they wouldn't have 4 professionally made videos, and all 3 of their releases available internationally on I-Tunes. On their first 2 EP's, they exhibited influences from Green Day and the Offspring. With Louder, Cable35 goes in the direction of classic Nirvana. That's a good thing since Nirvana has a very limited catalog of songs. Everyone knows that Nirvana split up in 1994, after the death of Kurt Cobain. So Louder is a good fresh substitute, in lieu of the absence of any new material from Nirvana.