NC17

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NC17 Releases Second Single & Video for “Party’s Over”

Richmond, VA’s NC17 released their second single, “Party’s Over,” along with an accompanying music video. The song will be featured on their debut EP, Nasty Habits, which will be released on January 21st, 2022. This track is a melodic party anthem all about making friends when your life is a party but seeing who sticks around when the party’s over.

Band member Derek had the following to say about their latest release:

“We wrote and rewrote and rewrote this song, but I think it paid off. Yani’s ability to sing the same chorus over different instrumentation blew me away on this one. I think this is an all-around good anthemic song that represents us well, and can still be a bit of a challenging one in a good way.”

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Review: NC17 – “Nasty Habits”
JANUARY 20, 2022, 11:00 AM RYAN NEWS, REVIEWS
Self-released, 21 January 2022
NC17 have Nasty Habits of putting together ridiculously catchy hooks on their new album.
So I got home from work and was looking at the TGEFM news posts for the day and noticed a premiere of an album called Nasty Habits by a female-fronted band called NC17, from Richmond, Virginia. I don’t know why, but my first guess was that they were a hardcore band. However, when I clicked the link, I noticed words like bubblegum and chainsaw pop and decided to dive in. Those are the types of descriptors that work on me. Soon, I was compelled to write this up.

Nasty Habits is first and foremost melodic and dripping with hooks. Opener “Killer Show” has oodles of energy and Yani’s lead vocals are full of attitude and angst. Coupled with some backing vocals (including some really cool staccato bursts) that add layers and harmony and a driving propulsion, the song goes down real swell. Follow-up “Something’s Different” plays around with a real bounce and more fantastic lead and backing vocal interplay. The song structure is also just right, with different parts that transition smoothly from one to another, all making sense but not seeming anything approaching obvious. “Come Over” is a little more mid-tempo and the vocals stretch out a bit on the melody, reminding me a bit of The Pretenders Chrissie Hynde. The music is melodic and dynamic, showing range that goes from chiming to buzzing and quiet to loud. When it makes room for the bass, the bass line shines. And when the lead guitar turns up, it drops another hummable hook. So far, so good.

The second half of Nasty Habits doesn’t let up either. “Front Girl” is another hook-laden song with some of my favorite “whoa-oh-uh-oh” backing vocals and when the drums go double-time for just a quick phrase, it knocks me out. The next one, “Raise Your Glass”, really lets the vocals stretch out again and I’m especially charmed by the “it’s up, it’s down” lead/backing vocal back-and-forth. It’s more catchy goodness. Closer “Party’s Over” opens up with something close to late-night solemnity in the opening moments, reminding me of something from a NOFX record, I think. But then the full band kicks in and kicks up a racket, sorting out a tale of an evening of abandon and hopeful that they’ll make it through without scars. I love the slowed part slightly past two minutes before it all closes out with a bit of nostalgia and no trace of regret. It proves a fitting end to a fun record.

Nasty Habits is a good time. This might be NC17’s debut, but they’ve got a good thing going with their memorable songs and buzzing sounds. I wasn’t looking for this, but I’m happy with what I found.

Favorite song: “Killer Show”

Favorite moment: the vocal back-and-forth on “Raise Your Glass”

Favorite whatever else: the band’s shifts on “Something’s Different” keep my attention

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POP-PUNK/POP-PUNK/EMO/PUNK-ROCK/REVIEWS
Introducing: Nc17
BY MATT SPEER
13/01/2022
Nc17 – Richmond, Virginia, USA

Introducing Nc17, where do I start? Well, the reason why such an introduction is necessary now is that the above image is the cover of their forthcoming debut EP, Nasty Habits, set for release on the 21st of this month. Secondly, now is opportune, relevant and really quite simply uncontestably necessary in this here 2022 because of the ironic health that much of the music scene is in, despite it all. Thirdly, it’s that despite the sheer wealth of sonic variety in the Punk music scene, sometimes, kicking it old school and toasting the past with unashamed refreshment is just as valid, as is doing so in a scene rapidly and fantastically filling with faces contrary to the same old. Punk is for everyone.

Nc17 are, by their own words, monikered as “Chainsaw Pop”. Take one look at the cover photo of this feature and the album art above and their aesthetic speaks for itself. Attire toasting classic Punk as much as the world post both Skate and Pop-Punk suggests the natural display the band will emanate on their debut EP. Luckily, however, we have two singles already.

Caught somewhere off the coast of post-Green Day island and Alkaline Trio rock in the Ramones archipelago, Nc17 are all about crunching, angular guitars, rounded, rumbling basslines and buoyant, energetic drumming. Yani’s vocals are soulful, soaring and naturally casual to a point where every hook ensnares with you with ease by categoric definition. This is Pop-Punk, unashamedly so yet constructed from parts nuanced and cut from either side of whenever it was supposed to have started. Green Day-esque rhythms, sharp drum fills and a humming bass tone join early Alkaline Trio-spun melodic lines and vocalisations stamped with Yani’s own mark.

As a quick digression, if any of the above sounds appealing, check out a band named The Jacklights – Here.

Much in the way of early Punk-Rock from the Ramones to the Buzzcocks built on the fuzzed-Pop and Garage Rock abrasion before it. The ’90s would then pass and such was reimagined in those Pop-Punk bands and albums many of us needed to get us where we are now.

‘Party’s Over’ and Nc17 as a whole, are that transformation. Fun and confidently so at that. The band’s second single teases a faster, almost classic Pop- Skate Punk intro before falling into a more driven, fluid mid-paced but classic Punk-fuzzed Pop-Punk. Nc17’s latest single ahead of Nasty Habits subtly hints at further tempo and a darker, more brooding sound whilst juxtaposing such with their melodious majority. ‘Party’s Over’ despite its crystal clear classicism, also hints, treads, edges and encroaches on a marginally more recent and dare I say mature Pop-Punk sound, with 2:01 to 2:51 providing that alluring tidbit.

‘We wrote and rewrote and rewrote this song, but I think it paid off. Yani’s ability to sing the same chorus over different instrumentation blew me away on this one. I think this is an all-around good anthemic song that represents us well, and can still be a bit of a challenging one in a good way.’ – Derek, Guitarist of Nc17

Introducing Nc17. That’ll do I should think. Find all you need below and mark the 21st January in your whatever-you-use to record the meaningless flow of time. There are countless bands on the underground and plenty of zines, podcasts and blogs covering them. All are worth supporting.

NC17 is a female fronted four-piece bubblegum punk rock band from Richmond, VA. Each song is a hook-filled singalong, with a high energy live show to back it up. With nothing to prove and no egos attached, NC17 is all about the next show, small or large, and the next anthem to be written.