By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam
Review: Push Puppets – Tethered Together – Release Date: May 16, 2025
There was a time in the nineties when melody-oriented rock, power pop in particular was dominating The Midwest. Somehow with a quite demise of outlets like Parasol Records that sound was pushed into shadows.
Luckily, that sound didn’t die out, bands like Canada’s Sloan persisted, and now there seems to be a sort of a revival of that very good weather music, and it is no wonder great stuff in that vein is coming from places like Chicago.
In this case it is that city’s quintet Push Puppets and their latest album ‘Tethered Together.’ The band, Eric Specht (lead vocals, guitar), Steve Frisbie (backup vocals, guitar) Kyle Magnusson Essig (keyboards), John William Lauler (bass) and Greg Essig (drums), don’t shy from going for the right melody at any point throughout the album or letting their guitars ring, but at the same time add arrangement variations like a string quartet or a horn section here and there to make things as interesting as possible.
The only ‘problem’ they might have here is that out of the ten tracks here they potentially have ten possible singles, so they just might have some hard choices to make.
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