where did shin guard come from?
the new record seems to have a new guitarist, who has really ramped the whole thing up.
the previous record, from 2018, is very similar
to touche amore, and actually has a bit of shoegaze feel. that kind of
took me off guard, a little. it's not awful, even if it suffers from the
kind of cookie-cutter issues that a lot of the music in the genre suffers
from nowadays, although it's not fatal, either. maybe the fairest
reaction is to point out that it sounds like a demo that is bursting a
little - you can hear potential, but it isn't realized.
the ep from 2017 is more in a pop-punk style and is much weaker.
so, they're evolving.
interesting.
