NEW MUSIC REVIEW: EVERGREEN TERRACE

Stream Evergreen Terrace's new full-length, Almost Home, over on PureVolume. The record will be released September 29th through Metal Blade.

Since 1999, Evergreen Terrace has been crafting a sound that combines heavy '90s hardcore with Fat Wreck Chords-esque melodic punk rock. The Florida four-piece manages to make more sense of these seemingly bizarre sonic bedfellows with each release and Almost Home carries this torch. Songs like "God Rocky, Is This Your Face" and "The Letdown" find the band playing heavier than ever--something like a production-polished Turmoil--while others border on schmaltzy, John Feldman produced pop ("Losing Blood"). But when the band captures the middle ground on "Mario Speedwagon" and "Sending Signals," it seems that their genre-unifying mission has been accomplished. - DF

For Fans Of: Stretch Armstrong, Hardcore kids covering Strung Out, All of those young Victory bands poorly mixing pop punk with hardcore.