Rude Pride - Be True To Yourself

(SPA 2015, LP produced by Spirit of the Streets)

After just a couple of years of activity Rude Pride, from Madrid, has started to becoming a warranty on the european oi! scene. Their first, selftitled, EP was made by four songs of hard hitting music, and this LP is the perfect continuation of it, with a bunch of angry tunes, melodic without being pop and singable as well: the right music if you like to go to the gigs to sing until you got no more voice. Be true to yourself is the title of the album and well, for sure this album is true: it smells like boots, braces and of that smell of burning that electric razors make when you use them for too long (I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about!). No less, no more: skinheads music made by skinheads with a good taste in music and the ability to avoid the boring clichès of the genre.

Personally i love the intro, with that catchy guitar sound supported by the piano that seems like a revival of "Plastic gangster" that turns into a good piece of well played rnr oi!. "Wrong way" it's, for sure, the best song here, with a very Perkele taste and a chorus that enter inside your head and there's no way you can't remove it from there, but why you should want that? "Golden fists" it's truly a bomb, with a rythm that bring you to move your boots, no matter where you are, and "We'll never change" too, with a chorus that's a fist on your face. The guitar work is well made and it's the real column that makes to the whole album to not be boring or old, there a lot of solos and "rocknrolling" riffs that give some energy, that is never a bad thing, with a tiny sound, so different from the usual heavy distorted sound that's like fresh air. Of course it's not all gold: "Crisis sons"it sounds too much as a filler, and it's not the only one: "Flag on fire" it's a little too already heard, the ska song "Living a lie" don't say anything more, but today it's a little hard to be innovative with this kind of music. 

Of course, this is a deput LP and it's normal that got some weak points but here quality surpasses this little defect without any problem, so don't compromise your listening with our fussiness, because, truly, this is a very good album, the kind of that never tires you from listening, so pump up the fucking volume! 

You like Perkele? Here there are their proper heirs. With this i don't want to mean that they are copies or something like this, that's not the case. But they got the same attitude that allows to put together a taste for melody and the ability in making aggressive songs. Rude Pride are a must-to-know if you are intrested in the new european oi! scene, as Booze & Glory, another band that likes to play with 90's sound.

1) Hated and rejected
2) Wrong way
3) Outta my way
4) Crisis sons
5) No problem
6) Golden fists
7) Screaming oi!
8) We'll never change
9) Flag on fire
10) Living a lie

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