09/10/2023
EVR-97, BANE - THE NOTE LP,
Review by pwfanatic
Listening to Bane has always felt like being hit in the face with a huge bag of bricks. Aaron Bedard failed vocal lessons. The guitars punish you with an unforgiving brutality, slowly building up into a supernova of noise throughout every song. This is Bane. They aren't out to make new fans, and The Note shows that. It has been four years, and the band has aged and matured, and the new album shows it.
The Note opens with the powerfully quick "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda," an anthem for the straight-edge kids where Bedard criticizes what it has become but why he is still in it. The song sounds like it is straight off of Give Blood, slowly building up to an explosion behind a driving dual guitar harmony that peaks with about 30 seconds left into a phenomenal harness of rage and energy. Like many of their other songs, "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" is designed to make the kids go crazy live, but the studio version doesn't disappoint whatsoever […]
The Note flows fantastically, but after such a long absence of new material, I had hoped for more. Still, with what Bane has given us this time around, The Note shows a more aged and grizzled version of the band that slays everything. But the energy is still there. The passion is still there. Most of all, the heart is still there, and that already is more than they can say about most bands around.
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