The debut offering from Port Elizabeth band Dear Martyr.
Transitioning your band from a local garage band to a national
level act is never going to be easy. Yet after nearly a year of
recording and planning Dear Martyr hopes to enter the league
of their national music heroes with their self-titled debut album.
The band owes a debt to great friend and even better producer
Bryan McLagan of Drop and Roll studios in Port Elizabeth. His
skills behind the desk and above average ear make him an up
and coming major player in the South African recording industry.
The music itself is a blending of punk roots, melodic sensibility
and anthemic choruses, from the punk inspired energy of opening
track 'Set the Sky Ablaze', through introspective and sometimes
experimental tracks such as 'Her Bullet..." and '1984' until the
huge final chorus of album closer 'We Stand in Silence'.
Lyrical themes explore the bands' own tragedies, the current
social climate that South Africa's youth find themselves in as
well as the multi-faceted topic of love.
Overall this is an album of 13 powerful songs stylishly presented,
100% independent and hoping to find its way into the lives of South
Africans country-wide.
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