FC Five: Five is a young band from Japan playing fast and emotional brand of hardcore. They sound lika a cross of old school and new school hardcore with strong emphasis on emotion and punkrock melodiousness. When I heard them for the first time I was totally blown away by all this catchiness and energy these songs radiate. With screaming vocal that sometimes almost turn into singing, catchy melodies all over the room and high speed drumming they create a touching vividness that always put me in a good mood no matter how bad the weather outside is. If I had to compare them with someone it would definitely be their fellow kinsmans 1000 Travels of Jawaharlal. All the songs inhere have been released before since we're dealing with re- release, but this time they have a different lay-out and addition of 3 extra songs from demo times. Between EP and demo songs there's a long, way too long (+11 min) noise track transfered in the last few minutes into one of their demo songs. Those songs are not as convincing as the ones on EP, though. They defenitely lack some catchiness/ fullness and I have a feeling like they were walking between old school and new school hardcore not knowing exactly how to combine both perfectly. Now I'm glad they found the right way with EP songs. Lyrics deal with personal issues but their grammar is bad and therefore everything fall into the water. Ok, so they have some work to do here but musicaly they're very convincing, especialy with new material. If they were from the states they would definitely be popular in no time.

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