EP Review: Drastic Park - Imposter Syndrome (2020)
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Drastic Park - Imposter Syndrome
Release: August 21, 2020
Label: selfrelease
Length: 15:58
Genre: Skate Punk / Melodic Punk Rock
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
One day we will hopefully say something like "aw, remember 2020? With the COVID and the lockdown and crap?", and then someone will put on some music reporting about these days. One of these works indirectly giving us the Zeitgeist of the pandemic is Drastic Park's new EP "Imposter Syndrome". I reviewed the Melbourne-based trio's debut in February this year and I was very happy to receive a message by Maddii Nghtmre telling me about their second release.
The sophomore EP features six tracks. All of them were recorded in the musicians' homes individually. So, not even had they to stay at home for writing and recoding, neither could they do it together and thus had to makeshift three individual homerecording studios and use the ways of our digital world. Zeitgeist as fuck, I say.
"Imposter Syndrome" is a diverting piece of melodic Skate Punk. The component of Hardcore is represented a bit less than on their debut, I find. I would definetly call it music for the skate park, the beach, holidays in the sun. Nevertheless, the contents are diverse.
The lyrics contain thoughts about the pandiemic's effects ('Patience wearing thin' and 'Feels like forever'), expressing yourself in society ('Work of Art'), overthinking things when meeting people ('I'm trouble'), embittered struggle ('10 years'), and inner conflicts ('B+'). Drastic Park approach these topics with a fresh mix of serious and humourous thoughts.
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Two tracks make me extraordinarily happy. One of them is 'Work of Art' featuring Terra's Cassie Sutton. The other one is 'I'm trouble' which brought me back to the late 1990s when "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" was released on N64.
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