BrighterDays - All's Fair In Love & War
Straight out of Scranton, Pennsylvania comes BrighterDays, a five-piece pop-punk band with beau coup sizzle and tons of panache. The band recently dropped a new EP, going by the title of All’s Fair In Love & War. And it’s lit!
BrighterDays
Band members include: Pat Anthony (lead vocals), Tyler Dibble (vocals, guitar), Anthony Jackson (bass, vocals), Brendon Johnson (guitar, vocals), and Micah Neiss (drums).
Founded by Tyler Dibble, who began writing music as a way to muddle through adversities and the spaghetti-like tangle of swirling emotions, and then conscripted his friends to join him, the band’s name – BrighterDays – reflects their collective positive attitude. BrighterDays are ahead!
The EP contains five tracks, the first of which is “Solstice,” opening on tight, buff guitars flowing into a contagious pop-punk melody with a grand rhythm and fuzzed-out colors. Anthony’s voice really holds the song down, infusing it with washes of I care, but I don’t want you to know I care, intensity. His tones provide the perfect sonic vehicle for pop-punk.
The intro to “Loose Ends” is thick and dense with gleaming guitars. Neiss uses his drums as another instrument on this tune, adding crisp accents and gliding brawny fills.
“Year Curse” opens on galvanizing riffs, a couple of pauses, and then takes off into a stellar galloping, stuttering melody full of potent guitar layers and buff percussion. I love the stuttering guitars that infuse the tune with thrash metal energy, while still maintaining the yummy surfaces of pop-punk. Neiss does an excellent job on the drums on this track.
“Make Amends” features a surging, flowing, gliding rhythm and a tasty bass line thrumming with compact tones. The guitars radiate a wall-of-sound essence that’s forceful but shimmering with sparkling colors.
The intro to “Loose Ends” is thick and dense with gleaming guitars. Neiss uses his drums as another instrument on this tune, adding crisp accents and gliding brawny fills. The breakdown in the middle alternates gossamer resonance with beefy episodes, giving the tune a sweet shifting nuance.
The last track, “Again,” slows thinks down, riding on elegant guitars topped by Anthony’s dulcet tenor and mirroring background vocal harmonies.
On All’s Fair In Love & War, BrighterDays struts their knack for infectious, powerful melodies, persuasive rhythms, and the impressive voice of Pat Anthony.
