thatfilmduderyan:

“I’ve waded through, an ocean of sand, for a grain of doubt. I’m certain, my body is an anchor, when it’s wasted not being beside you”. 

Make sure you head out and pick up the new Sharks album when it comes out later this month. I’ve had the chance to spend a lot of time around these guys and watch them grow over the last 3 years. Honestly speaking I could not be any prouder of them, in the same way I’d be proud of family. I’ve not seen them for little under a year, and they are sorely missed. 

Rise Records had a lot of controversy from their fans when they signed Sharks. Personally speaking, I admire the guys at the label for the steps they’ve taken to diversify what they do. I do not recognise nor do I understand the people who were moaning about this. Music needs to be put out there in as many forms as possible, and signing a new sounding band to a label, doesn’t mean the label will stop what it’s doing. You’ve got to sit down and appreciate the sound of this band and consider what the lyrics are, and where the music has come from. It astonishes me every time. How can people so young make music so mature? I could go on for hours.

There are a lot of people in the music industry who will often drop names; people in bands who they’ll want to be seen to be associated with. With Sharks, I guess I’m guilty of the same thing, but it’s more in the way of ‘someone stood at the back of a room feeling an overwhelming sense of pride’. Especiallyfor people you’ll never not regard as brothers from other mothers.

Click this link to pre-order the album

Click this link to listen to ‘Portland’ from the new album

Click this link to listen to ‘Sundays Hand’ from the new album 

the-joysof-living:

NO GODS /// SHARKS

Rare pressing on milky haze with colored center.

finwrites:

Review #18 

I spent ages working on a review for the recent Sharks LP but it never came together for whatever reason. When I got into listening to it again, I thought I’d have another go at critiquing it and here it is. It’s my most basic thoughts on the band and record, kinda different but nonetheless enjoyable to write- and read, I hope. 

(Source: ftjm, via bibliskaepositechnicolor)

deserthymns:

Sharks - No Gods (2012)

Up until now, the majority of the albums that I have reviewed have ranged in age from a few years old, to decades. Usually, the albums that grab me and hold tight do so over a certain amount of time and dozens of listens. This year, however, Sharks did just that and in half the time it would normally take.

Pre-2003 and all of the way through the mid 2000s, I was a pop-punk and hardcore kid. Really the first band that introduced me to the whole underground subculture was New Found Glory when I was in 7th grade. From that point, it was first the Drive-Thru Records roster that I came to love before adding in Vagrant and Equal Vision Records into the fold. I wanted my music loud, fast, and aggressive. It was around my freshman year of college that I discovered Radiohead, whom I had heard of through my friend Ian’s older sister, and truthfully it wasn’t until the last few years that I truly came to appreciate them, but at that time, my tastes were evolving. By the time I was out of college and working, I barely listened to anything more than folk and indie rock, and not much has changed in the few years since.

There have been a few bands that have grabbed my attention in the last year or so that would be considered pop-punk or punk influenced. One is The Gaslight Anthem which is what I would consider our generation’s Bruce Springsteen, and the other is Sharks.

Originally formed in 2007 in England, Sharks are the second band to be reviewed by me (the first being The Early November) that are on Rise Records (which I didn’t expect would happen). Sure they are pop-punk, or more appropriately pop-oriented punk (there is a very distinct difference), but I would say that for a band as young as they are, they have more potential and talent in the songwriting arena than most their age. The songs found on No Gods are catchy, the hooks are huge, and the sing-along moments are aplenty.

Some of my favorite moments on the album are when the band builds and crescendos into a frenzy, only to break into a wild and very technically proficient guitar solo (see, “‘Till The Wonders Arise” and “Matthew’s Baby”), though some of the more fist-shaking sing-along moments are found on tracks like “Arcane Effigies” and “What Entails?”. 

For me, No Gods is an album that I immediately wanted to go and purchase on vinyl as soon as I heard the first single, which is saying quite a bit. Sharks is a band that I am very interested to watch as they grow and mature as songwriters. I imagine (and hope) that as they get older and put a couple of thousand miles on their van that they will only get better.

Sounds like: Make Do and Mend, The Gaslight Anthem, and The Clash.

Rating: 8/10 

(Source: deserthymns)