One of the greatest Melodic Punk albums in Bandung independent scene!

This EP is the second album of Buckskin Bugle, and published by My Own Deck Record Label. I got this album from my friend who went to Bandung in 2004. It’s truly worth because the album only cost Rp12.000.000, and contains four catchy songs that will integrate easily in our head. I could say that Buckskin Bugle is truly inspired by NOFX, Blink 182, and New Found Glory.

"Satu Anthem" as the first song really turns out our spirit and drives us to a happy mood. The lyrics are also very catchy and easy to remind. A great Melodic Punk song! “Sebait Kata”, as the second song, like the other melodic punk songs, tell us the story of a lonely guy who is thinking about his ex-girlfriend. Although, it has a sad lyric, but without forgetting the high content of musicality, Buckskin Bugle apparently did arrange the song to increase our spirit and not stay at the emo mood. Their additional guitarists, Iwan Turbo, are helping both of the songs to be more colorful.

The third song, which is “Everyone Has A Story”, is the shortest song of the album, and the duration, is only almost reach a minute. In this song, we could analyzed that Bandung melodic punk scene are being contaminate with emo, which is proven from the scream of additional backing vocalist Ucok (Restrain vocalist) at the end of the song, whether the lyrics are not at all, express an emo story. “Dengan Kerasnya!” as the last song, and as their album title, expresses us, how fun what melodic punk genre is. “With chord ‘A’ that I play, I scream from my heart, out loud!” looks like the meaning of the song that I could describe.

The creativity of Buckskin Bugle (Tedi Bear as Vox, Nadi Curl as Guitarist & Ami Roe as Drummer) arranging these four songs, which are the lyrics are written by their vocalist Tedi Bear, has brought Bandung “Melodic Pop” independent scene to be more colorful. Looks like My Own Deck Record Label, has recruit a lot of potential melodic punk bands in Bandung, such as Sendal Jepit, Disconnected and other melodic bands to scream out loud!

Although Melodic punk era has being turned to emo (and now metal) looks like, it will always be a masterpiece.
Salute for Buckskin Bugle and My Own Deck!
Keep up the good work!
I’m still waiting for the next masterpiece!