New Found Glory return, and they are ready for a fight. After leaving Geffen back in 2007, they took time out to release ‘From Your Screen To Your Stereo Part Two’ and last years ‘Tip Of The Iceberg EP’ and ‘International Superheroes Of Hardcore’ album. Now it’s time to get serious again.
Kicking off with ‘Right Where We Left Off’ NFG forget last full album ‘Coming Home’ (a superb album which unfortunately was deemed too slow for the majority of their fans), the band head straight back into ‘Catalyst’ era punk pop. It’s all fast paced bouncy pop. This is what NFG have always done so successfully.
‘Listen To Your Friends’ is an up to date version of ‘My Friends Over You’ as catchy as hell, and as good a song as any of the singles NFG have released over the last ten years. Jordan Pundik retraces previous lyrical themes about love, loss, missing loved ones whilst on tour punched with lines such as ‘We’re kept together by highways and telephone lines’. Gone are the gentle piano sounds from ‘Coming Home’ replaced by punchy guitars.
Clocking in at just 36 minutes, the album is fairly short, however it is packed with 12 three minute pop songs where the band doesn’t hold anything back. The album is relentless and is over before you know it.
New Found Glory: A band worth fighting for.
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