{"id":73412,"date":"2018-12-03T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=73412"},"modified":"2018-12-02T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T15:37:14","slug":"review-light-years-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-light-years-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Light Years \u2013 Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a way, Cleveland’s Light Years<\/strong> belong to another time. The kind of pop-punk they play could have been written a couple of decades ago, itself a shunning of the ‘new school’ in favour of stylistic particularities that would be dead and buried were they not surviving in an ‘Afterlife’<\/em> provided for them by bands like Light Years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And the band made up of Pat Kennedy, Tommy Englert, Andrew Foerst and Kent Sliney make no apologies for resurrecting this sound, almost taking on a classic feel these days: simpler than simple mid-paced rhythms and warm, layered Hoppus-esque vocals delivering references to quaint things like radios.<\/p>\n

The rock ‘n’ rolling ‘Back Then’<\/em> gets to the nostalgic point straight away: “We were young and dumb and a little fucked up back then \/ but I wouldn’t change a thing.”<\/em>\u00a0A faint piano provides a nice touch to the rollicking opener.<\/p>\n