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UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet 10" (YD 030) Uncurbed for me one of the underratest bands in this scene. This recording is from 1999 and spotlights one of the best HC bands ever! This isn't only a fucking project - these guys live UNCURBED! They play live and they rocks and kick your lazy ass. If you like honest music - here is UNCURBED. /YELLOW DOG UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet MCD (Pollute 072) The newest barnburner from Sweden's kings of punk! Crazy drunken double vocal attack with switchblade guitar solos galore. Comes in a ultra-snazzy digipack, too. If you ain't into UNCURBED... you either haven't heard them yet or you're fucking stupid. /DISTORT OHIO RECORDS UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet MCD (Pollute 072) 2003's Chords For Freedom, in some ways, sounds as out of time as a slice of time-warp psychedelia did back in the mid-'80s. Although these tracks were recorded in late 1999 (the release was held up when the original label went bankrupt), these eight brief blasts of pure adrenaline hardcore sound like they could have been recorded in Washington D.C. or Los Angeles at some point in 1982, before Black Flag changed hardcore forever by discovering Black Sabbath and weed on the My War album. The rhythm section is in full-on lockstep pummel mode, and the two guitarists seem to be in some kind of notes-per-measure race. Vocally, it's honestly impossible to tell whether vocalists TB and Jens Törnroos are singing in English or their native Swedish! (For the record, six titles are in Swedish and two are in English, but it's genuinely a tossup.) There's no denying that these are exciting bursts of old-school hardcore, but they feel kind of like simple genre exercises; it's difficult to connect with this album on any level beyond the most superficial. /Stewart Mason - ALL MUSIC GUIDE UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet MCD (Pollute 072) I have heard well-informed persons talk lyrical about "Ackord för frihet". I know why - UNCURBED goes on knock straight away. This eighttrack edition was recorded already in may 1999, why it have taken so long time to come out in store I don't know. But it was worth the waiting. The Dalecarliaguys are scalding for the unusual thing on Swedish and does it brilliant. Or what says about the beginning of "Futurevisions": "Sitting down here in the subway station and waiting for my early retirement..." That says a lot about the prevailing social climate, but UNCURBED can also write with the glint in the eye. Thinking then first on "No change" and verses like "The soul is more tired, but it doesn't matter/We're still drinking beer and playing football..." This accompanied by the fellows hallmark: coarse rawpunk. Last year came the brilliant album "Punks on parole" and in the present situation it seems like UNCURBED just can compete with them selves. /Mikael Sörling - CLOSE-UP MAG UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet MCD [In swedish] (Pollute 072) Jag har hört initierade personer prata lyriskt om "Ackord för frihet". Jag förstår varför - UNCURBED går på knock direkt. Den här åttaspårsutgåvan spelades in redan i maj 1999, varför den tagit sådan tid på sig att hitta ut i butik vet jag inte. Men det var värt väntan. Dalkarlarna skaldar för ovanlighetens skull på svenska och gör det lysande. Eller vad sägs om inledningen av "Framtidsvisioner": "Sitter här på en tunnelbanestation och väntar på min förtidspension..." Det säger en del om det rådande samhällsklimatet, men UNCURBED kan även skriva med glimten i ögat. Tänker då främst på "Ingen förändring" och strofer som "Själen är sliten men det spelar ingen roll/Vi dricker fortfarande öl och spelar fotboll..." Detta ackompanjeras av killarnas adelsmärke: mustig råpunk. I fjol kom briljanta albumet "Punks on parole" och i dagsläget verkar det som om UNCURBED bara kan konkurrera med sig själva. /Mikael Sörling - CLOSE-UP MAG UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet MCD (Pollute 072) They just don't come better than UNCURBED, do they? This album was recorded years ago with plans for it to come out as a "tour release". It never did. Had this been lost forever, heads would've had to roll. As it is we can all get down on our knees and thank the powers-that-be (in this case Sound Pollution Records) for their mercy and grace. No words, no comparisons can do UNCURBED justice but a clever writer once dubbed this band "the MOTORHEAD of punk", which is about as accurate as you are going to get. Titanic, driving, balls-to-the-wall hardcore played with plenty of passion and all the prototypical Scandinavian distortion and thickness you could ever want. No year would be complete without my declaring an UNCURBED album to be a "10 Best" candidate, and here it is only February and 2003 is complete. /Jeb Branin - IN MUSIC WE TRUST UNCURBED - Ackord För Frihet MCD (Pollute 072) In case you ever questioned it, Uncurbed are without doubt Sweden's undisputed kings of D-beat punk. The band's dual guitar, dual vocal, punk-as-fuck assault is unparalleled in its sheer ferocity. Best of all, Ackord för frihet is done entirely in Swedish; refreshing when you consider how many bands around the world have decided English is punk's "universal language". It's clear that Uncurbed have not forgotten the adage "revolution starts at home". Recorded in an unbelievable 12 hours back in 1999, Ackord för frihet finally sees the light of day on Sound Pollution Records. Perhaps the fact that Ackord... predates the band's stellar Punks On Parole is just one of the reasons that the disc rages in a more primal and unrestrained manner. If classic Swedish hardcore along the lines of Anti-Cimex or Crude SS is your bag, you'll certainly be stoked as hell on Ackord för frihet. I know I'm stoked... /FLEX YOUR HEAD |