If De Heideroosjes are the most famous punk band from The Netherlands, Undeclinable can easily be considered the second one, maybe together with I Against I. Once they were known as Undeclinable Ambuscade, but, after releasing “One For the Momey” and “Their Greatest Adventures”, aftear touring with Bad Religion, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Ten Foot Pole to name a few, these five Dutch boys decided to change their name. Althought this change in the name, you may notice that their logo is still and “A” with an “U” in it…and they said they keep their old logo to remember their roots. Weird choice, like if they want to forget their past but remember something in the meantime.

Talking of less boring things, “Sound City Burning” has 16 songs ( well, let’s say 15, as the track 13 is 4 seconds long and is only silence) that sound someway different from their old stuff; the band started with fast songs like “Snowboard” and their evolution in the sound kept them where they are now: a music that is an hibrid between pop-punk and emo-core. A song like the “Lipsdick Fantasies” can be easily mistaken for a Blink182 or a pop-punk song in general, although here there are some great harmonies in the voices, when there are almost three guys singing. Also, the lyric of this song is someway funny, as I can understand from the title; just to give an idea, it is a bit like “Stroking My Cat” by Diesel Boy, but the cat here is stroken by a woman.

The other songs are quite slow, as “LAPD”, that has only a mid-tempo chorus, in the vein of the latest Bad Religion sound, or even “Lonely And Burning”, with slow but long choruses. The fastest tune is “What You Stand For” ( that is 1:10 minutes long) and is so fast that only when it’s over you are able to realize it is a song; but there are is also “Waiting For the Catering” and “Bed To the Bar” that caught my attention for their speedy guitar riffs and harmonies.

Probably the song that will gain more success is the cover of Joe Jackson “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”, that I already heard and appreciated covered by that great band named Goldfinger, so this song comes like nothing new to me; it is very very similar to the Goldfinger interpretation, maybe the band covered it after hearing the John Feldman’s band.

Anyway, if you never heard this band, my only advice is to pick up “Sound City Burning”, an album that might not change the life of the old fans, but that will surely help Undeclinable to get new fans all over the world.