Bridgend's Broken Nose are essentially a skacore band with a variety of influences - mixing poppy melodies with ska and hardcore influences. At times they sound like a more aggressive Adequate Seven, which is definitely a good thing. Mixing up a variety of different musical styles throughout - 'Pro-Active' mixes in hardcore, dub and a Beastie Boyes-esque 'Sabotage' style vocal - keeps this interesting, although at times the band do come across as a bit messy, as the very same song has a wildly overblown stop/start guitar solo at the end which doesn't really make the rest of the song particularly cohesive. The individual sum of each part is brilliant, but put together it doesn't always quite work.
I was debating whether to give this 6 or 7 and opted for the latter because Broken Nose don't really sound like anyone else. And that has to ultimately be a good thing.
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