Review: Alldways – L’Odore Dell’Asfalto Le Sere D’Estate

The Alldways from Turin come back with a new album!

After some years of absence and a drastic and umpteenth change in line-up that reduced the members in a power trio, Alldways came back in grand style launching their new album “L’Odore Dell’Asfalto Le Sere d’Estate”, which is so tremendous that surely doesn’t leave us indifferent.
Active since the distant 2001 and always loyal to the DIY ethics, this band carries on and evolves their stylistic and musical path, that finds in the new record the perfect blend of rage, melody, speed, and rage again.
In debt with their city, Turin, the eternal suburbia out of factories and concrete, they can transform the urban wasteland of the Motor city into the most traditional TO-HC like Frammenti and Bellicosi, but at times we can also notice some reference to the earliest Against Me! or bands like Anti-Flag.
Songs like “Non C’è Pace”, “Usciamo Allo Scoperto” or “Oltre Il Confine” are nothing but poetic riot songs far from banality and clichés.
During the entire record, Silvia and Andrea alternate themselves intertwining their voices, the guitars increase continually and wrap Luca’s drums like an ivy, that beat faster and faster, because riot won’t wait tomorrow. There’s also space for a cover song, “2+2=5” originally by Minoranza di Uno: a successful experiment! If it’s true that kids grow up anarchists, probably they’ll play punk once they become teenager.
Freedom is in the air in Turin, especially in the summer evenings. Welcome back Alldways, even if you never left after all.

Translation by Chiara Piva
Review by Ombra Punx

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