The debut album from the Kilograms is set to release on April 5th, and this week they released their second single off the upcoming reggae punk album, and it’s exactly what you would want from such a talented band. While most of the members from this band are well known for their other projects or their solo performances, the music from the Kilograms is not a derivation of any of those other bands and is worth listening to entirely on the merit and quality of its own sound, but it’s also worth mentioning that it features a familiar slower New England punk vibe.
“Faith and Love” has the feel of a retrospective and introspective aging punk somewhere in between Rancid, the Pomps, and the Slackers. It’s melodic punk has solid reggae influences, with a nice keyboard melody providing a lot of the ambiance, with some smooth backing vocals to add emphasis and texture, and it times, the guitar feels like it has a bluesy feel with the overall vibe of the song being led by the hopeful lyrics delivered with raspy smoky vocals.
The music is designed to extract emotion, to awaken something in your heart and soul, and make you feel your place in the world. The drums, keys, bass, and guitars just pull you in, and summon your faith and love, to awaken your imagination, to make you long for something. It speaks to you in the way only music does. it’s hard to put your finger on exactly why you love this song, but you will feel it. It will suck you in and whisk you away, and unlock part of your subconsciousness that just wants to exist with the music taking you on a journey outside of your control- and on April 4th the rest of the album will release to complete that journey.
Written by Gimp Leg
