Alex Melton Signs To Pure Noise Records & Collaborates With State Champs On Two New Songs

Solo artist Alex Melton, known online for his renditions of punk songs as country influenced songs, or indeed pop punk covers of other mainstream acts, has signed to Pure Noise Records. Alex Melton started out recording pre-production demos for bands back in 2012 & soon started to have a taste for recording himself. He fell into covers after warming up one day playing along to Taylor Swift‘s We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, adding his own double time drum parts and improvising over the song. 

Today, he is releasing two new songs both covering one of the most loved pop punk bands around, State Champs and having Ryan Scott Graham of the band feature on another. “I loved the fast beats over the catchy pop hooks, and I fell in love with the process of taking pop songs and arranging them to sound more like the music I was obsessed with growing up – pop punk.” Says Melton.

“It’s endlessly fascinating to me to be able to take chords and a melody from a song, and change certain parameters and get a different feeling from the end product. I’ll sometimes re-harmonise a chorus, or change the key or tempo or meter, or even sometimes just put a fresh guitar part on the existing structure. It’s fun to distill the song to its truest form and then build it back up in a different way. The context of the lyrics can even shift depending on the accompaniment style.” (Alex Melton)

You can stream both tracks here