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ALBUM REVIEW: PEARS \u2013 PEARS (Fat Wreck Chords)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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American\nhardcore band PEARS have made it to album number three, and if you\nhaven’t discovered what all the fuss is about yet, it’s high time you\ndid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formed in 2014 in New Orleans, they self-released their debut album Go To Prison<\/strong> the same year, and saw it re-released by NOFX main man Fat Mike’s Fat Wreck Chords<\/a><\/strong> the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A growing reputation for incendiary live shows saw their star in the ascendancy, and a follow-up record, Green Star<\/strong>, came out, also on Fat Wreck, in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSo\nthen, to album number three, which frontman Zach Quinn describes as\n\u201cmore uplifting than either record that we\u2019ve done, but it’s not\na happy record\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My introduction to PEARS came at their Rebellion Festival<\/strong> debut in 2017, and I was so taken by the band’s energy that I bought both albums from their merch stand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PEARS at Rebellion Festival in 2017. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\nThis,\nhowever, is a step up from a band which I’m not even sure we’ve seen\nthe best of yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This self-titled album is their longest so far, with its 14 songs coming in at 31 minutes, and there’s still energy aplenty, particularly on the likes of Nervous <\/strong>and Zero Wheels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\nretain their band\u2019s signature hardcore: blisteringly heavy, but\nmelodic and surprisingly catchy, but this album was far more\nspontaneous when it was recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis record, we went in with skeletons of songs and put things together on the fly,\u201d explains Quinn. \u201cWe never could afford the studio time to be in there 24\/7,\u201d adds guitarist Brian Pretus. \u201cA couple of songs ended up being stuff that we wrote on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PEARS at Rebellion Festival in Blackpool. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The album opens with Killing Me<\/strong>, which has a swaggering riff and some excellent time changes, and closes with the even heavier Cynical Serene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In-between, there’s much to admire, from the explosive single Comfortably Dumb<\/strong> to one of those make-it-up-as-you-go-along songs, Naptime<\/strong>, which moves from pop to gang-chant hardcore in the space of two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funerals <\/strong>has a guitar solo which wouldn’t sound out of place on a metal album, and there’s a real curveball in penultimate track Traveling Time<\/strong> \u2013 the poppiest song the band have ever written, and one which Pretus describes as a \u201cpalate cleanser\u201d. It sounds like Weezer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any album bearing the PEARS name is not for the faint-hearted, but if you like your rock served hard, with lots of unexpected twists and turns, you’ll love this. 8\/10.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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