{"id":7221,"date":"2015-10-09T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-dead-ahead-dead-ahead-ep\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:50:01","slug":"album-review-dead-ahead-dead-ahead-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-dead-ahead-dead-ahead-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Dead Ahead – Dead Ahead EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBringing together a collection of punk backgrounds \u2013 procuring members from the likes of Autopilot Off and With The Punches – Dead Ahead<\/b>\u2019s debut EP presents an emphatic and unwavering slab of punk rock.<\/p>\n

What the New York outfit display is not the sound of a disaffected youth, nor the introspective struggles of a digital-age punk band. Instead, in just four short tracks, Dead Ahead<\/b> deliver a passionate re-emergence onto the scene; a quartet of musicians relishing the opportunity to make music for their own gratification and thriving in each other\u2019s company whilst doing so.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

At times \u2018Dead Ahead\u2019<\/i> does appear somewhat one-dimensional, partly due to the parameters the band themselves have set out. Whilst at barely ten minutes in length this is something they can scarcely afford to do, these moments are few and far between, outweighed instead by the collusion of sustained percussive assault and incisive guitar work setting the ideal back drop for Jesse Vadala\u2019s enthused vocal delivery.<\/p>\n

A record that will appeal largely to the punk rock purists, it is then perhaps slightly ironic that the EP peaks when the band pull their most hook-heavy bow from the quiver, closing gem \u2018Exit Letters\u2019<\/i>, providing a masterful balance of punch and melody – an apt climax with Vadala exclaiming: \u201cI\u2019ll take this and write it down, while I\u2019m ripe with those memories\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Progressive and thought-provoking, \u2018Dead Ahead\u2019<\/i> is not, but the self-titled offering is proof that the simplest ideas are often the best.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Dead Ahead’<\/em> by Dead Ahead<\/strong> is out now on Panic State Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Dead Ahead<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by James Lloyd (@ct4james<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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