New In Singles: Protect Your Heart and Raging Clue

Grace-Elizabeth
Apr 17
4 min read

Okay, so it’s been a little while since we did a post, and I’ve got quite a few reviews to get done. So, I’ve decided I’m gonna do a new in singles post, and a new in albums post. Today we’re talking about new singles from Raging Clue and Protect Your Heart. I love both of these bands, they both forever impress me, and I’m super stoked to be talking about their new singles.

First up let’s talk Raging Clue. Now it feels like forever since we’ve spoken about this lovely lot, but they’re back with their latest single Chapters. Now, from the get go I knew I’d love this song. It’s got a great beat to it. I love the whole vibe of this track, and there isn’t one aspect I can criticise. The riffs in this track though, truly extraordinary. Absolutely love this track, and it’s exceeded all expectations I had for it. I was sent this track in press a few weeks back, and I can vouch for the fact this track gets better the more you listen to it. It’s spectacular. It’s something else, it’s punchy, it’s got some dirty, heavy elements within the sound, and everything about this track is a big yes from me. This actually reminds me somewhat of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, whilst also reminding me a bit of blink-182. I feel like if you took elements from both bands, and allowed a Notts band to make a track with those elements, this is what you'd get. I love this sound, and I love everything about this track. It's spectacular. It's truly something else. Cannot even process just how insane this track is. It's everything you could want from a pop-punk/punk-rock track and more. This doesn't sound like a track from a small Notts band, this sounds like a track from a scene dominating band. I'm here for this track, and I know this is going to be on heavy rotation. I absolutely love it, and I'd be surprised if this didn't make it into my most listened to tracks currently. Honestly, well done to Raging Clue, because they're killed it yet again! This lot know what they're doing, and they're good at it. I absolutely adore this track, and I think you need to hear it if you haven't already! Overall, I'd give this track a solid 5 out of 5 lemons! I cannot recommend this track enough, so go show this track and Raging Clue some love! Where To Find Raging Clue; SpotifyInstagramTwitterFacebookApple Music

Next up let's talk about our wonderful friends Protect Your Heart. I don't feel like I need to say anything about how much I love this lot because we all know I love this lot like I love Twin Atlantic. Truly wonderful. One of my favourite bands, and my joint-favourite small band. Last week they dropped another new track, this time in the shape of Fireproof. Fireproof doesn't have the same feel as the likes of Worst Side of Me and Last To Love You, but has elements that remind me of the likes of Rain City Drive. Rather than being heavy in pop-punk terms, this is just something else. It's got heavier elements within the sound, the vocals still remind just as impactful as normal, but this song hits in a different way to similar tracks. The chorus goes hard, as we always expect from Protect Your Heart, and honestly, this track is phenomenal. I expect nothing less than this from Protect Your Heart, but honestly, I'm here for it. Those riffs are something else, and I feel like this track isn't exactly what you'd expect, but that ending is everything. I feel like this track has been done so well, because there are moments when you expect there to be rough vocals, and a breakdown, but it doesn't happen, and then when you get to the last 30 seconds, you finally get it when you least expect it, and it's that level of tempo change I love to see, and I want to see more of. It's moments like that where I feel like you can clearly see why they got second place for best overall band of 2021 on the lemon awards, and if they keep at this sort of stuff, we could see them take the first spot. I'm here for this track, I absolutely love it, every single second was a blessing on the ears, and whilst it can be argued this is the heaviest track they've put out so far, it's one of the best, for that fact. If you haven't heard it yet, then you need to stop sleeping on it, and if you've never listened to Protect Your Heart before, then please go and change that, because they're phenomenal, and one of the best bands out there currently, the consistency is everything, and from their first single they've been killing it, and they still continue to do so and we're on single 7 now. That's impressive, so without a doubt, I would highly recommend checking this track out. It's another solid 5 out of 5 lemons track, and I'm so hyped to hear what comes next!

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