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Streetcore released their newest release, I'll Be Found One Day to a captivated audi-
ence on August 13 at Bayfield Town Hall. From left to right, Holland, Laurie, Raczycki.
Area band releases first
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I'll Be Found One Day, the
latest release by Bayfield -area
band Streetcore, was released to
a sweaty, high-energy crowd at
the Bayfield Town Hall Thursday,
August 13.
This is Streetcore's first full-
length album, consisting of 13
original tracks.
If you combined the vocal ca-
lamity of the Dead Milkmen, the
four -chord punk riffing of The
Clash, the super -happy fun bops
and melodies of Weezer and in-
jected of the kind of confidence
and testosterone that often gets
young men into trouble, you may
come close to Streetcore.
The disc reflects the band's situ-
ation in life — being young, disil-
lusioned, and dodging responsi-
bility in a society that, their music
suggests, needs to give its head a
shake.
The arrangements on this disc
are well done, and the songs con-
tain many great opportunities for
sing -a -long, whether a lazy, bar-
room sway of the disc's opener
Johnson & Nigel, or the fist -in -
the -air call and answer of Four
Chord 4/4 or Let's Call it Even.
The band consists of guitarist/
vocalists Cam Laurie and Ivan
Raczycki, bassist Keith Holland
and drummer Pat Armstrong.
Holland said the band draws
influence from bands like Against
Me, Fake Problems and The
Clash, with hints of surf -rock and
folk music making their way into
the band's mix of music as well.
Gang vocals ane featured on
almost every track, with plenty
of whoa-oas and hey-eys to go
around.
Singing duties are split between
Laurie and Raczycki. The vocal
delivery is unique; not the most
on -tune, but full of feeling.
While the pair aren't the most
vocally -precise, they do a great
job of capturing the mood of ev-
ery song, whether frustrated and
bored in Where 'd All My Stuff Go
or angry and to the point in Last
Night on the Town (Raczycki
sings "these people are NOT MY
FRIENDS! ").
Would -be -critics may need to
keep in mind this is punk rock
music and not the Metropolitan
Opera, though the performance
value is similar.
They have some fun with that
at their own expense in the song
Gripe, stating "It'd make my night
to hear someone sing in key."
Recorded at Icehouse Studios
near Goderich by Thomas Ire-
land, the disc is well -mixed. The
old left -right guitar formula never
goes out of style and helps sepa-
rate leads from rhythm. Clean or
dirty, the tone is good and matches
the music well. The drums are
clean and tight and Armstrong has
some cool ways of keeping a song
going, like the surf -turned -stomp
of Scrantonicity II.
Filling out the rhythm section,
Holland does what a good bass
player should - keep the pace with-
out trying to add too much flash.
Streetcore has the soft -verse -
building -up -to -a -thumping-.
chorus down to a T, and thanks
to their hook -writing ability and
well-placed vocal double ups, the
listener knows exactly when to
pay attention to the song's mes-
sage and when to raise a fist and
just go with it.
The band is doing an end -of -
summer 401 tour (London -To -
Tonto) with singer/songwriter PJ
Bond of New Jersey before head-
ing back to another semester of
higher education, life lessons and
shirked responsibilities.
For more information on Street -
core, or to check out the music,
visit them on the web at www.
myspace.com/streetcoretheband.