I think this band crosses too far into pop punk for me to really be into it but I will give the album a shot,and if it sucks I think you guys know you can count on me to stand up and tell it like it is. Just because you pull out break-down riffs, does not mean you are metal or hardcore. The lyrics are more tormented than the music. It reminds me of Sum 41 in this regard which is not a compliment. Thankfully the songs are all around three minutes so I am never tormented for long. "Maybe It's Me" combines the things I do not like about both Blink 182 and the Foo-fighters and combines them into one song.
"Uncooked" works off it's feel-good charm. The chorus is too happy, but it's one of their most hooky songs. "Out of Touch' works off a 90s alternative formula, but this formula was the more homogenized sucking cock for corporate radio one, bands like All-American Rejects and Lit fall into this category. I am not sure who they are trying to convince that they can get heavy like a core-anything band on "Daddy of Mine'. They are made at their dad if you care. "Dead End Friend" is an angrier take on the radio-cock sucking I referred to earlier, and really Sum 41 would be included in that.
By the time I get to the song "Paranoia," I am having to skim through the songs because even three minutes of this feels like I am wasting my time. "STFIL" is a little more of a pop ballad, but truth be told this sounds more authentic to what they are supposed to be doing. "Rollercoaster' makes me suspect these guys will be on a future version of "Punk Goes Pop". "Better Get Better' finds them still trying to crank out a power chord riff, though I am not sure of one person who would believe this is punk that has one ounce of brains in their heads. I thought when I read the song title "How Do I Let You Go?" that this would be a ballad and boy was I right. I will give this album a 6., it has enough clever songwriting to keep them off the radar of my top 10 worst albums of 2024.
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