(Sorry the layout is all messed up, I'm posting this from Blogger mobile, it's shit)
What we have is a little known band hailing from Ohio that is doing something I thought didn't work the way they are making it work.
This is an EP consisting of songs off their new record I Won't Hold This Against You released last month through Paper + Plastick Records with an acoustic b-side. The main focus of this review is the single Parking Lots. It sounds pop punk. It is pop punk. So what is so special about it I hear you cry? It all comes down to execution.
See, I was under the impression if you stayed true to the long outdated pop punk script, it was going to be the whole been-there-done-that routine and then said band disappeared. Not here. This song does everything by the book and it's bloody brilliant. Power chords followed by high neck riffs are everywhere in this song. Particularly like the sound produced, crunchy and fattened. Vocals are pitch perfect with lyrics being, you guessed it... NOSTALGIC! They're enough to make anyone smile with stories aplenty contained within its punchy tempo. Whatever you expect out of a pop punk song, think New Found Glory and it is in this song. Precisely the reason it is so appealing. This is a perfect example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" because this song is without doubt the biggest, most pleasant surprise I've come across this summer. Worthy of me writing about it, haw haw....
DEFINATELY a band to watch over the course of the next couple of years. This wonderful little EP is available for only 50 cents (34p) from here: http://paperplastick.limitedrun.com/products/513490
7.5/10
Seb Wainwright
Twitter: @Get_WhatYouGive
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