New Found Glory
Catalyst

THE REVIEW

In recent years, punk-rock has literally taken off, sometimes making this type of music a bit repetitive, leading to instances where some bands copy each other. However, New Found Glory know how to do their job and always bring a little new novelty to their albums.

With this album, they have greatly improved or matured, perhaps that's the right term, making the melodies more sophisticated and elaborate. In short, it can satisfy lovers of catchy choruses and will appeal more to the more demanding listeners, increasing the album's longevity. The only novelty is the intro, which is inspired by Californian hardcore. The novelty I mentioned earlier is the violin accompaniment in the track 'I Don't Wanna Know', which in my opinion did not achieve great results, as well as 'Over the Head, Below the Knees' and its acoustic guitar. A round of applause, however, for 'Failure's Not Flattering' in which a synthesizer is used that adds liveliness to the track.

Ultimately, the album doesn't offer anything new but is entertaining and engaging nonetheless, especially the band's classic tracks like 'This Disaster', and leading up to the first track 'All Downhill From Here' which fully represents the New Found Glory style—by no means predictable—and it makes this band the only one to produce pure punk rock tracks that, in some ways, manage to make the composition of the songs original as well.

So, this album is perfect for the average listener that New Found Glory targets.

P.S
Sorry for the review of Coming Home, which is quite frankly horrible even to me, the one who wrote it, but it was my first review, and moreover, it was a kind of test.