{"id":32842,"date":"2012-09-28T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-lipona-networks\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:03:33","slug":"album-review-lipona-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-lipona-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Lipona – Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tallahasee, Florida’s Lipona<\/strong> describe themselves as a\u00a0experimental skate punk band however from hearing ‘Networks,’<\/em> they are more then that. With haunting vocals, drawn-out introductions and soaring choruses, ‘Networks’<\/em> sees a band developing and coming into their own.<\/p>\n

Starting with the fiery ‘Followers,’<\/em> Lipona sound like a solid unit that bounce off each other well as their brand of punk rock has all the favourable\u00a0characteristics yet vocalist Yamil Velez\u00a0offers a sense of sincerity;\u00a0“And it’s like an heirloom passed on to the most reckless hands, a custom that’s never broken but irrelevant. These words are never spoken but now it must be said, after this generation, these rituals are dead.”<\/em><\/p>\n

<a href=“http:\/\/lipona.bandcamp.com\/album\/networks” data-mce-href=“http:\/\/lipona.bandcamp.com\/album\/networks”>Networks by Lipona<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere tracks like ‘Rights Of Passage’<\/em> and ‘Civilized’<\/em> are fuelled by the bands blistering punk rock energy and the bands lyrical\u00a0sentimentality\u00a0echoes that of Rise Against. Whilst ‘Comfort’<\/em> is lyrically hollowing and complimented by a technical bass-line.<\/p>\n

Throughout ‘Networks,’<\/em> its clear that Lipona have grown over the last two years and that personal troubles have affected the band yet it’s clearly evident on tracks like ‘On Giants’<\/em> and ‘Collapse’<\/em> they are closer. They’ve grown as songwriters and musicians, as ‘Networks’<\/em> dares to expand beyond Punk Rock and embrace sensible ideas. Although this isn’t quite evident on first listen.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless Lipona have created an anthemic, progressive punk record which grows on you in time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Networks’<\/em> by Lipona<\/strong> is available now on Disconnect Disconnect Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lipona<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Sean Reid (@SeanReid86<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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