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Album Review: Oh The Humanity!, Ground To Dust

 

Written By Christian Cole, OOTB Publications 

Massachusetts based melodic punk band Oh The Humanity! has released a new album on Thousand Islands Records and fans of both the band AND the genre as a whole will find plenty to love. 


Ground To Dust is chock full of fun and chunky riffs, searing guitar solos, and anthemic choruses. It’s a near perfect trifecta of sound for a punk album. It’s melodic, fun, and in your face. 


Oh The Humanity! manages to meld an old school sound with their own unique twist. The guitar work is incredibly explosive and big for a punk album, something I found particularly alluring and fun. 


The lyricism found throughout the entire LP is poise and concise, but manages to not take itself TOO seriously, never feeling contentious.  


Fans of punk in any form (punk, pop punk, skate punk, melodic) will find something to take from this. It’s rare to find a punk band that scratches the itch of 90s/2000s skate punk, and to find one that does so without feeling stagnant and overplayed is seemingly an even smaller chance, but Oh The Humanity! is exactly that, something evident from the intro track to the very final moments. 


A punk album for all punks, so get out and get this in your ears as soon as you can, you won’t regret it. 


Favorite Tracks:


"Upper Riffspiratory Infection"


"Ground To Dust"

 

Tracklist:

  1. Imposter Syndrome
  2. Gutted    
  3. Upper Riffspiratory Infection    
  4. Worth Nothing    
  5. Love Irresolute    
  6. Circumstances    
  7. Blues    
  8. Never Do Another    
  9. Last Gasp    
  10. Siren Song    
  11. Ground To Dust

Hear Album:

https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ground-to-dust


Follow Oh The Humanity!:


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https://m.facebook.com/OHTHEHUMANITYMA/


https://www.instagram.com/ohthehumanityma/

 


 

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