Record Label: S/R
Genre: Pop Punk
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Partly Cloudy straddle the fine line between pop punk and radio rock on their EP Arm Your Weapons. Listening to their hooks, there’s no doubt that they’re decent songwriters, but my problem with them is that I’m not too sure what type of band they really want to be. On a couple of the tracks, they reminded me of prime No Use For A Name, or a slowed down Millencolin. On other tracks, they were more akin to poppy Green Day or just about every rock band with distorted guitars. And then, halfway through the fourth track, they go a bit screamo, which sort of ruins everything, because they seemed to do pretty well without resorting to any schlocky emo conventions. And here, I was hoping for a return to simple 90s pop punk. Perhaps if Partly Cloudy figure out what type of band they want to be, they might be worth a real listen.
Bottom Line: Decent songwriting, but right now a band who don’t know who they are sonically.
Notable Tracks: Helpless, To The Gods
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