Longshots – Between Two Fronts
Longshots – Between Two Fronts
Self-Produced
Release Date: 28/03/2025
Review by Metalphysicist
7.5/10
“Between Two Fronts” is the new EP from Longshots, based in Thessaloniki (Greece), that consists of four songs, three of which were already released as singles – ‘The Well’, ‘Hidden Figure’, and ‘Black and White’. That is a good choice for Longshots to have some extra exposure for their songs, so the band migh eventually, have a chance to be noticed on Spotify, in The-land-of-700.000- songs uploaded every damn week!
Releasing singles and packing them on an EP featuring a new song, ‘Between Two Fronts’, was Longshot’s strategy to provide a chance for more people to keep in touch with their music. And that is only one of the hard tasks required for a band, as they must also feed Facebook and Instagram with fresh posts to get more fans following their social media profile.
Yes, we live in the modern Middle Ages, and we work as servants for The Big Tech’s feuds, where the Landlord gets three slices out of four of the pitiful revenue share of ‘money’ for the bands. That imposition drives me crazy, because we live in the reign of fuck up algorithm patterns created by the dirty, rotten, filthy stinking riches such as Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and their army of merciless thieves and liars to oppress all of us, and convince us to spend most of our life stuck in social medias prisons. So we are.
That is the case of Longshots and their aim is to show the world the songs on “Between Two Fronts”, which sounded to me like a good compilation of Modern Metal, as heard on such songs like ‘The Well’ and ‘Black and White’. I liked it better when the sonority changes to a Stoner Rock mood on ‘Between Two Fronts’ – the highlight song of the EP. There is quite a lot of musical references stuck on Longshot’s songs on “Between Two Fronts”, which is ok for a band that had only taken the first steps to finding their own musical fingerprint. On ‘Hidden Figures’, maybe there is a path to the next level of Longshots sonority, as this has the beginnings of a sound of its own. However, the production of the songs needed to be better, so they didn’t sound like they were taken from demo tapes.
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Because we are sick of being slaves!
TRACKLISTING:
01. The Well
02. Black and White
03. Between Two Fronts
04. Hidden Figures
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