Rhode Island’s Follow Thru just dropped Eat Your Heart Out, and this thing moves. Twelve tracks in roughly half an hour, fast from the start, tight all the way through, and somehow still emotional enough to leave a mark.
That’s probably what I like most about it. The record has all the speed and urgency you want from skate punk, but it never feels like the band are just racing through songs for the sake of it. There are constant little shifts in rhythm and intensity, enough to keep everything alive without messing with the momentum.
It’s very fast, very precise, but not cold. There’s a lot of feeling underneath the riffs and the speed, and that contrast works really well. You get the punch, the hooks, the tight playing, but there’s also something more personal running through the whole album.
The songs are short and direct, but they don’t blur together. The pacing changes just enough, the melodies come through clearly, and the emotional side gives the record a bit more weight than a straight skate punk sprint.
And honestly, thirty minutes is perfect for this kind of album. It gets in, hits hard, gives you enough variation to stay interesting, and finishes before anything starts to drag.
Eat Your Heart Out is fast, melodic, emotional, and really well put together. That mix of speed and feeling is exactly what makes it work for me.
