Back when American Idiot came out, my dad won free tickets to see Green Day in Denver from a radio station, and he gave them to me. A free show is a free show, and I attended. Jimmy Eat World opened for them. We were pretty far back, but they didn't seem to have much stage presence. Still, I vaguely remember having a record of theirs in high school, and remember them having some kind of cred stretching back to before they struck it sorta-big as a pop rock act.
This sounds a lot like that, which isn't bad. It's fairly straight-ahead rock music, and I like it. I'd give it 6.5 out of 10, that .5 getting removed to the words "ticked off" in the lyrics. I don't know why, exactly, but that annoys me.
Speaking of things I liked when I was younger, how about Ours? It's the baby of Jimmy Gnecco, an overwrought, gothier version of Jeff Buckley from New Jersey. I think he sung for Queen for a little while. He's got good pipes, but all in all, I liked the music a bit more when I was depressed all the fucking time. Still, a guilty pleasure of mine. Their third album is coming out sometime this year, under the probably half-hearted production of Rick Rubin.
Ours - Fallen Souls
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