New Found Glory
Coming Home

THE REVIEW

Coming Home is the fifth album by this band, and it has undergone a style change, abandoning the lively sounds of Catalyst to add a bit of melody to the lyrics. The tracks all seem connected by themes such as family, children, the time spent with them, etc... Perhaps because the band is always busy with world tours. The musical result is a type of power pop with emo and pop tendencies. In some tracks, like "On my mind", there are influences from Cartel and Yellowcard in "When I die" and "Boulders". The guitars are very clean, and with the help of the piano, they manage to remind us of Coldplay. In short, if with Catalyst we were fascinated by the "rough" sounds, now things are very different. The differences from the other albums are not immediately noticeable, also because the first two tracks are more similar to the old style. Instead, starting from the third track, the music changes, and the direction taken by the Floridian band becomes apparent. There are unexpected hints in "Too good to be" and "Familiar landscapes", while "Love and pain", in my opinion, would have been the only track not to include in the album. Unexpected, however, is the entrance of violins in "When I die" and the female voice that mitigates the splendid track "Boulders".

Coming Home, although not offering anything original, is a good album that will perhaps suffer criticism from long-time fans. Now it only remains to be seen if New Found will leave the old path for the new one.