Description
Latest album from this Swedish d-beat / hardcore project.
Our take: A Question for Today Not Tomorrow is the fifth record overall and second full-length from Ume, Swedens Warchild. Given the bands name and imagery, you might guess they play d-beat hardcore, and you wouldnt be wrong. When I dropped the needle on A Question for Today, the first comparison that came to mind was Totalitr. Like Totalitr, Warchilds take on d-beat isnt particularly heavy or noisy. The sound is powerful and clear, but the production doesnt call attention to itself, instead asking you to focus on the riffs and songs. And they are killer! Again, like Totalitr, Warchild isnt just banging out the gnarliest sounding chords they can find; their riffs feel well constructed, a sense of melody lurking just enough in the background to give the songs shape and character without distracting from their grittiness and power. The songs have a subtle cycle of building and releasing tension, several of them erupting in climactic guitar solos that, like the riffs, have the texture of Disclose-esque gestalt, but with that trademark sense of melody just outside the frame. A Question for Today… is an infectious record thats almost too well done for its own good. If youre into this particular Swedish hardcore sound, this isnt one to miss.
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