You cannot really fault the ambition of young German 'post-hardcore' proponents Annisokay. Having already attracted considerable attention in both their homeland and elsewhere with their unique reworking of Miley Cyrus' otherwise dire and unmentionable 'Wrecking Ball' (which to date has earned this Halle-based quintet almost half a million hits on YouTube - plus a furtherYou cannot really fault the ambition of young German 'post-hardcore' proponents Annisokay. Having already attracted considerable attention in both their homeland and elsewhere with their unique reworking of Miley Cyrus' otherwise dire and unmentionable 'Wrecking Ball' (which to date has earned this Halle-based quintet almost half a million hits on YouTube – plus a further 300,000 views for their debut single 'Sky'), they now have gone on to present us with this epic 14-track debut album… and the promise of the follow-up to, er, follow pretty damn soon… Talk about hitting the ground running… Now, regular readers – and those who have the misfortune to frequent my circle of friends, will know that two words in that opening paragraph normally send me running to the hills.. and those, of course, are "post" and "hardcore" – but only in that particular combination! I mean, hardcore is still a relevant and vibrant (perhaps more than ever before) musical form, and most definitely hasn't died out yet – so how can anything have come after it when it is still extant? Post-apocalyse movies are not set before, or during, the apocalypse – so how can there be such a concept as post- anything [...]
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