The Warrior's Code

The first twenty seconds of the first song are a hushed and soft Irish ballad before crudely being interrupted by hardstyle punk with the same Irish flavour. This is a great way to start this album for two reasons (1) It accentuates how rough-edged and crude this whole album is going to be, Irishmen will be shouting in your ear and you'll get used to it and (2) The Murphys are proud to be Irish to the bone, they're not dropping an ounce of style or Irish energy in favour of a more conventional style. They're the only group I know that would integrate bagpipes into a fired up rock sound and could make it work with pride.

It's fast, loud and produces Boston sparks! It's folklore filtered through rough-shouted punk and that works with both humour and a bang. The Murphys lead singers have loud raucous voices with expired throats (never shrill) and clearly let on they kept their accents unaltered. To a degree that they sometimes dare sound like let-loose pirates out to plunder and cause chaos, I'm not sure if to take that as a positive or not. there's a bonus point to imagine these guys sturdy drunk. It's great to hear them shout stories about Irish Folklore and pride of their nation and image and even poke fun at that but they strand towards cheesy from time to time.
This is grinding punk with muscles, steroids may or may not have been injected. They can handle a quick pulse that's a sure but they sometimes slow down, a tad too little or a tad too much on occasion. As said before they set out to mix two styles : Celtic Folk music and traditional straight played punk music, The Warrior's code is at its best when they find the cleanest stabilisation between these two and I think it loses itself when aiming for more traditional punk. They're an odd mix and therefore it's in high spirits when it pulls this off, they have adequate players behind the drums and accordion and they often prove themselves of being capable of intertwining them so why leaning towards straighter punk (and aren't the greatest at that) when you have something unique? My favourite example of this is their most famous song on here "Shipping Up to Boston" which perfectly captures their abilities and coarse borders without the refined simple punk they want to inject to appeal more to the mainstream I guess. They might've guessed that might've broken their appeal but their Celtic zeitgeist overlaying the whole album is the appeal. Still, this makes me proud to be Irish and I'm not even Irish.

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