Self Release (2024)
Back in 2017, Short Straw Fate released For The Heroes In My Record Rack, and album that I have just loved ever since. This year, we finally have a new release, Forgotten But Begotten. At seven songs, it's a little long for an EP and a little short for a full album and it mostly makes me wish there were just a few more songs on it, but boy oh boy do I dig the songs that are here.
I think if you made a ranked list of people in America with extensive Japanese melodic punk rock releases in their collection, I'd have to think I would end up in the top twenty at least. I bring this up because I absolutely adore the Japanese take on the sound that bands like Snuff and Leatherface brought to prominence. They've never given up on that sound in Japan and over the years so many incredible albums have come out of this wonderful country. Short Straw Fate do it as well as any of them, which is me trying to say this is pretty much the exact kind of music I want to listen to.
The songs have the energy and passion that is so difficult to replicate. The songs are all upbeat, the vocals are delivered with passion and I'm just obsessed with the hooks. The band named themselves after a Broccoli song, so chances are I'm going to like the music they put out (see also: Chestnut Road). This was one of my favorite releases of last year and I can only hope that it's not another seven years before I get to hear more from them.
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