Fist2Face Band Merchandise

• Shirts; Pee Records, Parkway Drive, Sonic Youth, Attack Attack, Seth Sentry, Sick of it All, The Snake The Cross The Crown .
• CDs; Remain Opposed, Say Anything, Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez, Throwdown, NOFX, Strength Approach
• Silverstein, Slapshot, Sky Eats Airplane, Shai Hulud hoodies and shirts
• The Statics coasters, shirts, badges, keyrings and new album!
• Heaps more Living End merch.
• Broni badges
• Stickers, Stickers, and more Stickers, such as Suicidal Tendencies, Fall Out Boy, The Used, My Chem and more!

THE CRITICS Noise And Popularity
Having released several batches of songs that established their sound and ethos quite specifically, for their big tamale The Critics decided to branch out and shake their own formula up some.

With guitarist Chay Robinson having been long enough in the band to start making his songwriting presence felt, The Critics’ most recently-written songs take the band to new and more adventurous places right from the get-go, with opening track No One Lost showing that Gyroscope’s influence on The Critics is starting to match The Critics’ influence on Gyroscope. Considering both bands have shared a member this is not at all surprising, but a more dynamic feel – coupled with the vocals of Andy Snell – is an incredibly potent thing for this band to have.

Robinson’s presence is also felt on World Stops Turning – a song that has the feel of two other bands similar in genus to The Critics: Midnight Oil and The Living End – and Noise And Popularity works so well because this new direction flavours the album, rather than dominating it.

The classic Critics sound abounds elsewhere on the record, keeping a sense of familiarity and grounding intact, with tunes such as Too Young and According To Me bursting through the speakers with a mix of punk rock snarl and soaring anthemic highs. Also on the ‘as per usual’ checklist are The Critics’ watertight rhythm section, and Snell’s freakishly vast vocal range. We always knew he could hit those bullshit high notes, but Noise And Popularity shows he can also hit the low ones with just as much impact.

If anything, this album could have done with being a bit more ‘together’ in terms of mixing, as some songs sound out of place due to the overall intention of sounding different, but the songs that do benefit from being given a mix independent of an overall ‘album’ sound benefit greatly.

Dave Parkin’s production, thus, is one more new creative tool that The Critics have utilised, adding to the broader and more thought-provoking approach the band has taken here, and now that it’s obvious the partnership works well it would be interesting to see what The Critics and Parko come up with if they actually bite the bullet and decide to write an album, rather than just record all of the songs they have at the time.

Mind you, if they pulled their finger out, there is very little The Critics couldn’t do. They’re just fucking brilliant.

-MIKE WAFER.
 

So it’s getting to that time of the year we start our Christmas shopping.
Sometimes we don’t have enough money to spend, enough time to look all over the place or just have no clue what to get the ones we love.
But let us tell you this, you’ll find everything you need here @ F2F!

Check out some of these awesome deals we’re doing for Xmas

- Free Pee Records sampler/badge/sticker pack with every Pee Records CD or merch purchase!
- Living End albums from $10!!!
- All Time Low - Buy any shirt or CD and get a free ruler/sticker/sampler CD
- Gyroscope singles - $2!
- Gyroscope cheap shirts!
- Statics - buy any shirt or CD and get a free badge pack! (the 4 old school badges – remove this last bit)
- Waverley - Free EP with every shirt purchase!
- Karnivool dirt cheap shirts and hoods!
- Cheap Living End shirts!
- TWLOHA - Title on pink and southern cross shirts - $10!!!
- Kisschasy - free badge pack, magnet and 'Generation Why' single with every purchase of 'seizures' (CD or vinyl)

Okay, you might not be looking for gifts for someone. But these are some great ideas to put on YOUR xmas wish list.

Anyone doing VCAL in 2010 should think about applying for work placement at Fist2Face. Get some of the best hands on experience working in one of the coolest shops in Australia!
Learn different things and meet heaps of new people.

Apply now for work placement at Fist2Face for 2010. First in best served
Email – store@fist2face.com.au

30 Seconds To Mars – This Is War
Released; December 8, 2009

NO-FX – Cookie The Clown
Released; November 24th, 2009

Secret Handshake – My Name Up In Lights
Released; December 12th 2009

Person L – The Positives
Released; December 12th 2009

Every Avenue - Picture Perfect
Released; November, 2009

Date: Sunday 22nd, November
Line-up: Damn The Empire
Time: 1pm

Date: Sunday 29th, November
Line-up: Strength Approach (Italy) and Mark My words
Time: 1pm

Date: Tuesday 1st, December
Line-up – Secret Handshake, City Esacape and Heros For Hire

Date: Sunday 12th
Line-up: For Our Hero, Delamare, Best Before
Time: 1pm

Date: Sunday 19th
Like-up: BROTHER & Final Eclipse
Time: 1pm