Lock-Sport-Krock - Nikola Sarcevic

Advantages: Return to top form for the Swedish four-piece.
Disadvantages: Not as good as Pennybridge Pioneers, but that's impossible really.

...) but it is the closest thing to it out of all their other albums. A massive step-up by the band in terms of style and maturity. Nikola Sarcevic has been working on some solo stuff, and has already released one album with a second due very soon, and Mathias Färm has another side-project band in the shape of Franky Lee. However, these are not permanent options from what I can tell, and providing there are no bad arguments, this band will be around for a long time to come.... Read review

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Advantages: Leap-a-rounable to!
Disadvantages: Under 35 minutes!

...Millencolin are a Swedish punk-rock band who I first heart of on the Bruce Dickenson Rock Show on BBC 6 Music (a great show by the way). It turns out that they have actually been around since the early 1990s being one of the early artists to sign for the now legendery Burning Heart Records who have also launched the careers of The Hives and Turbonegro. Millencolin are: Fredrik Larzon (drums), Erik Ohlsson (guitar), Mathias Farm (guitar) and Nikola Sarcevic (bass and vocals). This is their seventh album and I shall shortly be purchasing the others shortly, of that I am sure - thank God for credit cards! The music is guitar and drum based with no real guitar solos although there are some neat melodies played on top of each other in some tracks. The singer sings, other than on one track there is little yelling/screaming (this is just... Read review

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Advantages: A number of excellent tracks feature on this release.
Disadvantages: Not as hard hitting an album as Millencolin releases of the past.

...' album is that the music is not quite so hard hitting as has been known in the past. The band has here favoured a more pop heavy approach, and even though the music may not be as edgy as it has been previously; there is still plenty to take from the bands sound here and listening to 'Machine 15' provides for an extremely interesting listening experience indeed. There are fifteen tracks here, the album begins with title track 'Machine 15' and comes to its close with 'End Piece'. The music is not hugely powerful, the elements of the bands sound have here been put quite simply together, and yet the 'Machine 15' album most definitely works. The sound produced here is that of pleasant pop rock and the voice of Nikola Sarcevic comes through incredibly well. The man is exceptionally talented, his vocal display has always been perfect in the past... Read review

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