Dead Broke / Salinas (2019)
This will be my last post of 2019 aside from my end of the year list that I'll have up early next week. There are still some records from this year that I didn't get to, but I wanted to make sure I fit in most of the real heavy hitters. You can definitely call New Kinda Love a heavy hitter as even though it's come out at the very, very end of the year, it's good enough to be a decent disruptor in my 2019 album rankings.
I wrote about the first Notches album a few years ago (and somehow missed the 2nd one entirely?) and back then I compared them favorably to Rumspringer. I still that's a pretty solid comparison, though I think Notches have an even stronger grasp of putting together a killer vocal melody. They maintain a really great balance of noisy and crunchy guitar sounds with super melodic hooks and choruses. In some ways they reming me of early Archers of Loaf with their guitar squalls, but Notches are more rooted in a pop punk sound than Archers were.
I really dig this album a lot and only wish I had a little more time to spend with New Kinda Love before writing about it. I have a feeling that if it had come out a little earlier in the year I probably would end up liking it even more than I do right now, but it's very obvious how strong a record this is with only a week's worth of plays. Probably the last great record of the decde.
Notches - New Kinda Love:
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