There's not really a lot I can tell you about this Mönchengladbach based Pop punk quintet, except that apparently singer Lucas Braun, guitarists Bnedikt Ricken and Lukas Andrzejewski, bassist Moritz Mewes and drummer Yannick Vievers have been playing together since their teenager years, and thus strengthened the bonds of friendship which already brought them together on the common ground of musical preferences.
What was first a way of spending quality time together however soon evolved into something more serious as the guys started getting prolific at handling their individual instruments, and so in the Fall of 2012 they put money in a recording session which spawned the band's self-titled 3-track debut EP, which they self-released on Nov. 16, 2012. No idea what actually happened next, as that bit of info is simply missing, but I guess the guys took their band onto the local venues and found out they were well-received by the audiences they encountered. This in turn inflamed an ambition within the band's members to write even better songs, both musically and lyrically.
And so there it is, available since last September: the band's first official EP, albeit only available as a download (which seems like a weird way to me, for an already established label to promote a band which clearly has sales possibilities...but maybe I'm just thinking too positively about the label's status here?). Musically, the guys combine catchy melodies with really fins lead parts in the guitar section, meaning that the more seasoned music fan will have some fun listening to the band too (as opposed to getting bored all too quickly by a too simple musical take)...but what with Souvenirs being about growing up, I guess the band will be liked more by a younger audience, the lyrics dealing with the same shit that they might go through on a daily basis. Still, the music is not meant as a complaint, but rather used as a reflection, with hopes of a better future!
Recorded with Simon Yildirim (drummer of We Set The Sun), the five songs on the EP are meant as an escape from the miseries which our youths come across, and the five musicians which created them may still be very young, but they're full of hope...one of 'em being that you may like their music enough to buy it, so that perhaps they could live off it! Nice thoughts, aren't they? Posted as “For fans of The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, Real Friends and Veara”, I see no reason why anyone with a more general fondness of Pop Punk music shouldn't check this band out. You can do so by surfing to (www.) facebook.com/wearefountains (current EP's songs available as samples, as well as the debut EP's!).