It's been a good year for pop punk and it's just getting better. Pop punk veterans New Found Glory have been around for 10 years and are still going strong releasing their 7th album 'Radiosurgery'. These dudes know how to make a good record going through a decade of changing music styles and influences and still staying true to their roots; going from the mellow rock album to the angry break up record now bringing it all back to the good original stuff, that brings you to listen to this band over and over again.
The album starts with the self-titled first single and it's the pure stuff, you can't be still and you get that late summer feeling when you were skating trough the city. Even if you have never done anything like that, while listening to this record you wished you would have.
Jordan Pundiks (vocals) and Chad Gilbert's (guitar and backing vocals) collaboration lyrics are catchy and still 'boyish' even though the age of the band is getting to the good side of thirties. These guys still bring you the lyrics you wish you could shout out to all of your friends, enemies and people who just look down on you on the sidewalk.
Songs about the feelings of love and hate and disappointment truly show on this record on songs like Trainwreck, Dumped and I'm Not The One. The use of movie audio samples and gang shouts are the golden feature in an any pop punk album, but NFG makes it their own.
Being 10 years on the business the band has grown a lot and it shows on the music as well but in the name of the true New Found Glory attitude, they do not need to show it off. This records is simple, it will be easy to learn and to make covers and I think its a good thing. We are not waiting for a new generation of new wave rock -album, we want the true feeling of Pop Punk. 8/10
Text: Ida Kokko
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