Scallywagon - Journey Fueled By Ambition (2004)

Band: Scallywagon
Album: Journey Fueled By Ambition
Year: 2004
Label: Broken Line Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.98.2 (Ripped from the CD)
Location: Ohio, USA
Similar to: Strung Out, Satanic Surfers

Additional info: Scallywagon was a band from Cincinnati, Ohio who played between 1996 and 2005. They had a lot of releases, being official Hopscotch (1997), All We Can Afford Is A Smile (1998), Putting Two And Two Together (2002) and Journey Fueled By Ambition (2004), but they also had like 3 or 4 demos around those years, in between albums. This is actually their last release before they broke up; an INCREDIBLE 4 song EP. In this one they slow down a lot but the guitar work and vocal melodies are amazing. I put S.O. and S.S. as "Similar to" because, even if the songs aren't fast (maybe a couple of parts in 1 or 2 songs), you can see a clearly influence of Strung Out's guitar work and Satanic Surfers' (Unconsciously Confined era) in their vocal melodies. This CD was available at SmartPunk until some months ago, but it's now out of print (that's why I'm uploading it). If I'm not wrong, they played in a couple of Warped Tour's dates too. After they broke up, the drummer started the band "Better Luck Next Year", which has a lot of influences of Rufio, The Starting Line, Fall Out Boy, Slick Shoes; mixing fast beats with catchy pop punk melodies. It's a really good CD, you can preview a track of it at interpunk.com. (Don't mistake "Better Luck Next Year" with the pop-punk band called "Better Luck Next Time"!). If more info of Scallywagon comes to my mind, I'll add it later. Enjoy it!

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