Results of voting for the best album of 2022 at Melodic Punk Style:
1st place 179 votes
No Quarter – Fear And Loathing On The Pacific Highway
New album from Aussie skate punk No Quarter "Fear And Loathing On The Pacific Highway" is loaded with 13 tracks of awesome melodic skate punk that takes a heavy influence from the likes of Strung Out, Lagwagon and Guttermouth. If you ever find yourself nostalgic over that brief period in the mid-90s where grunge had died down, the Vans Warped Tour was making its mark on rock history, and your music habits consisted of mostly the Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph label, then the likes of No Quarter will cure that craving
2nd place 165 votes
Charlie Bit My Finger - Back And Fourth
Five years in the making, "Back and Fourth" is the third album from Belgian Pop Punk outfit Charlie Bit My Finger following 2017's "Third Times a Farm".
The album is packed with short, snappy, mosh pit erupting, singalong anthems. They’re melodic chaos with a good mix of light and dark lyrics. Anti-love songs, tracks that delve into topics of mental health battles and hopelessly romantic declarations of love. "Back and Fourth" is a straightforward album that doesn't try to be quirky; it crashes in, kicks back and rocks out!
3rd place 72 votes
Cigar - The Visitor
Cigar’s 1999 album Speed is Relative is a bit of a cult classic as far as skate punk albums go. Its successor, The Visitor, promises to be remembered as a fitting, albeit long-delayed, follow-up. Helmed by original members Rami Krayem on guitar and vocals and Jon Sortland on drums and vocals, with new bassist Jonathan Hischke, Cigar are a well-oiled three-piece who show a similar, yet matured version of the same style over two decades later.
First of all, Sortland’s rapid-fire drumming on this album is just fucking relentless. Their style of punk is pretty traditional of a skate-punk trio, but they show themselves to be masters of the subgenre. Lyrically there’s a wide range of styles here from the complex epic “Legacy of the Seven Piles” to the more simple elegance of the earnest love song “Move On.” And while it’s a showcase of talent from beginning to end, two songs stand out as the real heroes of the album. The first is “Classic You,” which was actually first released as a digital single in 2019. “Classic You” has a pretty straight forward melody and hook that’s complimented by the muscular rhythm section. The other is the single “We Used To,” which funnels an age-worn nostalgia into a hard-edged pop-punk tune that’s already got “modern classic” written all over it.
4th place 64 votes
Craig's Brother - Easily Won, Rarely Deserved
Craig’s Brother is finally back and a return it is. The band delivers just under 45 minutes of lightning-fast drums, solid riffs and more melodic hooks, harmonies and ooh’s and aah’s than you can shake a stick at. It’s like the 10 years in between albums never happened with the band firing from all cylinders
Other places:
5. Passage 4 - A Molotovcocktail Blues
6. A Wilhelm Scream - Lose Your Delusion
7.No Fun At All - Seventh Wave
8.Suntrace - Moongravity
9.Sic WaitingA Fine Hill To Die On
10. Have No Heroes - Letters To Nowhere
11. Screed - What have We All Become
