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s/t - 7" (2002)
Reason to Believe
This is fantastic! Great, raw, pissed off recording. No frills, no messing, political punk. Heads down, play that guitar and smash those drums! Ten songs of Swedish HC/punk that has been compared to great bands such as Moderat Likvidation and Mob 47 (they even do a Moderat Likvidation cover). Three songs sung in Swedish, the rest in English that deal with fascist pigs, oil campanies and more social inequalities. Great cover with spikey mohawked punks getting drunk and playing punk rock!! (SHY)
PH Comment:
Yeah you know Steve, remember the night in Stockholm, maybe? Even if we've developed pretty much since this record I still find it very nice to get such a good response.
Ruptured Ambitions
A decent slab of manic snotty pogo punk from Sweden. This is more the kind of stuff that was cropping up in the US a few years back (TOXIC NARCOTIC, THE UNSEEN, E.B.S….) and London (in particular, SUICIDAL SUPERMARKET TROLLEYS spring to mind). 10 tracks of pure two-fingered um-cha um-cha protest, with a quick nod towards ABRASIVE WHEELS ("When the Punx" cover!) for good measure. Stirs me good & proper.
PH Comment:
Great to hear, nothing to be unsatisfied with.
Doomed to extinction
I'm not sure which one of the EP's thier first one, but this one seems to be the later one somehow. Anyway, just like the previous 7" this one keeps up the (black) flag of quick, relentless raw punk, no more, no less. Maybe it's a bit more reminiscent to Snobbslakt due to the overtly chaotic playing and straight vocals that ain't as guinea pig-like as on "Utsatt" 7". But like before, I don't know what else to write about it except that it's damn good to see there's at least a handful bands who seem to be stock in 1982 (even though I guess the members were hardly existent at that time, ha). Oh and they run a cover of the Moderat Likvidation's "antifag", now if that ain't a reason to get your chubby little fingers on this!
PH Comment:
Yeah you're right there, we were hardly not born at this time =), but what does it matter, it's fucking raw punk. This is the first 7", just to let you know, and it's nice to read this review of the s/t 7" to be so appreciated.
My last chapter
I'm sorry to say this, but I think this just sucks... The music is all over the place and the vocals doesn't have a tiny little bit of rawness in it. I would have to say that this shouldn't even be a demo. Simply annoying punk trying to recapture the feeling of ol' swedish classics like Moderat Likvidation, but failing terribly. Maybe I'm judging this too hard, but it sounds like they're rehearsing for the first time...
2/10
PH Comment:
I know it's not your fave, but hey we're on to something here ain't we =)
No Front teeth zine
This is 10 tracks of intense, infuriated hardcore punk from Sweden with serious energy and aggression and it is so chaotic that it's guaranteed to beat the living shit out of you! You like the sound of that? Well you should because this is some real punk right here that will get you on your fucking feet and in a frenzied state of mind but above all it is fun and that's a real important part of it for me- as the inlay states 'Don't Forget To Have Fun'. I like this a lot.
PH Comment:
Cool, thanx alot for these word, we get pretty confused when people have such good words for this recording. But hear when some people really like it.
MaximumRock'NRoll
Blasting Swedish hardcoreassault a la MOB 47 and MODERAT LIKVIDATION. Raw kind of thin production that compliments the style quite nicely. Would like to see some more from this bunch soon. (MT)
PH Comment:
You´ll hear more we promise.
Equalizing X Distort
What did all the studios burn in Sweden or something? This is the third Swedish record I have reciewed today with lo-fi production. But PROJECT HOPELESS play raw Swedish thrash similar to MOB 47. A Black and white collage cover, lots of pictures of ale (Carlsberg, how Scandinavian ?), and mohawks abound. The ABRESSIVE WHEELS cover of "the punx go marching in" is very appropriate. This is much better than the street punk nostalgia tripping that has been happening in North America over the last 8 years.
PH Comment:
OK the sound ain´t that good, but is this a D.I.Y. movement or what. Thanx for the good words.
Close-up #52
PROJECT HOPELESS är så retro att de nästan slår knut på sig själva. Ena stunden är det Skånestinkande råpunk som hämtad från "Varning för punk", i nästa secund simmar de över till USA och snor från GANG GREEN och "This is Boston not L.A.", för att slutligen landa i någon obskyr "Killed by death" med Italien fokus. Med andra ord ett jäkla oväsen. Nog är PROJECT HOPELESS rätt standardiserad retrocore, men helt hopplösa är de inte. Singeln har givetvis sine buskismoment ("When the punx") och stunder av politisk inkorrekthet (covern på MODERAT LIKVIDATIONS "Antifag"), precis som alla de andra klassiska grupperna som de snor från. På det hela taget en solid debut. Synd bara att omslaget är i det närmaste oläsligt. Att inte inkludera kontaktadress är inte heller så coolt. Alla har faktiskt inte tillgång till internet. (Christoffer Jonsson)
PH Kommentar:
Jaha, vad ska man säga, tack för sågningen. Jag skulle nog vilja påpeka att vi aldrig har hört GANG GREEN, (hur omedvetet det är får ni själva avgöra). Att vi skulle sno en massa från gamla band förstår jag inte riktigt, om det nu låter som något nogon gjort innan så är det kanske inte så konstigt eftersom att det finns väl inte mycket som redan är använt (ni förstår säkert vad jag menar). Jag håller med om att det är dåligt omslag, men vad kan man vänta sig till de lägsta priserna, och adressen var oxå en miss.
Fishzine
Project hopless är en ny bekantskap för mig. De kommer söderifrån någonstans (ingen adress bifogad) och bandet innehåller medlemmar från Attitydproblem som tidigare recenserats i Fishzine (se arkiv). Bandet bjudet på sin självbetitlade 7'a på klassisk svensk punk/hardcore som helt klart hämtar influenser från band som Mob 47, Anti cimex och andra gamla hjältar. Något mer behövs egentligen inte sägas om musiken eftersom att det knappast är något nyskapande, något jag inte heller tror att killarna är ute efter att vara. De är inte heller den bästa musiken jag hört i genren men de lyckas i alla fall engagera mig för stunden. De har ett rått thrash sound vilket jag tycker att de borde kunnat få till bättre och som drar ner betyget en aning. Texterna behandlar gamla beprövade ämnen som till exempel Shells exploatering av Nigeria och fascism. De bjuder knappast på några nya infallsvinklar men fungerar ändå. Just "Shell" är en av skivans bästa låtar tillsammans med "PH". Skivan får godkänt av mig, det är inte direkt den bästa råpunk jag hört men ändå långt ifrån hopplöst. Dessutom kostar skivan endast 15kr, det är den garanterat värd. (Marcus Källman)
PH Kommentar:
Ja, vad ska man säga, det finns väl inte mycket att skriva om, vi låter väl rätt mycket åttiotal, men det är bara så det har blivit när spelat(inget vi bestämde oss för att inrikta oss på).
Busted heads
Project Hopeless S/t (Not Enough) - Wow, is it '82 all over again? New Swedish band doing fast, raw, lo-fi hardcore done the traditional old-school Swedish way. Think Mob 47, Moderat Likvidation, early Anti Cimex, Asocial etc etc. Great!
PH Comment:
This is very a good review for this record, a thing to add is that the same person has reviewedthis record on another place too, and if you know who it is, you notice a bit of a change in hie oppinions. Thanx for the good review.
Hardcore Holocaust distribution
SWEDISH RAW PUNK IN THE EARLY 80'S STYLE! 9 ORIGINALS AND A MODERAT LIKVIDATION COVER.
PH Comment:
OK, this is just an explanation in their distro but I thought it would do good anyway.
Falafel Media distro
Raw/mangel punk from Ljungby the drunken Swedish way. 9 own songs and a Moderat Likvidation cover.
PH Comment:
Yeah it´s not very strange review after Oskar and Toms behavior when we were in London, and Jonas was one of the persons we met there. (We´ve learned in weard way to drink to much from our past shithole Ljungby)
Evigt Lidande productions
Raw swedish punk done in the classic way we were spoiled with during the early eighties. They do a song originally performed by the famous Moderat Likvidation, and that says alot. PH Comment:
Ok, it says pretty much, dirty old swedish hardcore punk.