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Post-punk/garage from Amsteram.
Our take: I don’t know much about Amsterdam’s Blind Ambition, but I’m tempted to draw inferences based on their sound. I see them as part of a long tradition of bands featuring people who were weaned on hardcore, but want to get back to their punk roots. Maybe they want to create a sound with more musical colors rather than something focused single-mindedly on intensity. However, while they embrace melody as composers, they still play like a hardcore band, with lock-step grooves, bruising downstrokes, brisk tempos, and a big, aggressive sound. Blind Ambition makes me think of contemporary bands like Neighborhood Brats and Consensus Madness, and like those bands, they draw a lot from early Southern Californian punk, both the proto-hardcore Dangerhouse bands (the singer sings a lot like Alice Bag) and the beach-y punk bands like the Adolescents, D.I., and especially Legal Weapon (not so much in the vocals, but in the way there’s a touch of Johnny Thunders in the guitarist’s Agnew-isms). Great songs, powerful performance… this ticks all the boxes.