London-based punk rockers Burnt Tapes have released the second single from their upcoming album, “You Only YOLO Once.”
Phil G. of Burnt Tapes says “While stuck in a loop of anxiety and depression, leading to more anxiety and more depression, leading to insomnia but also physical pain throughout my body, I decided to write the ultimate party song about it, in the hope I’d be able to play it live one day should I get through this. That party song was “You only YOLO once”, a play on the old cliche to live each day to the max but also your brain can really fuck you up sometimes.”
The Burnt Tapes career is a testament to perseverance and dedication. Since the early days as teenagers jamming in the basements of Athens, Greece, the Burnt Tapes have shown their strength as rough-and-tumble storytellers, turning out songs equally rooted in frenetic energy and lifelike details of sadness, regret, nostalgia and mental health.
Now London based, the bands own brand of regret punk merges big anthemic hooks meshed with empowering guitar lines and throat ripping vocals bringing comparisons that range from Basement, to The Menzingers.
Over the last few years the Burnt Tapes have logged countless miles on the roads of the UK, US, Europe and Japan, playing over 200 shows across 20 countries, amassing a wonderful array of friends and fans along the way.
