Rating: 90/100
This album is the 10th studio album by the Bremerton Skate Punk/Pop Punk band, if you don't count cover albums and EPs. It stays true to their roots, but expands on some of their earlier work, and carries a strong theme of nostalgia. The band did a kickstarter to raise enough money to record and release the album on their own terms, and I think the fans that contributed will definitely be satisfied with it.
Next is "All Of It" a much simpler song overall, and is interesting because it's a love song coming from 40-something-year old happily married punks. It's cool to hear a more mature love song then a lot of the stuff they did earlier in their career.
After that is the song "Friday Tonight," this song is a kind of nonsensical journey, and it's probably the weakest song on the whole album. It has my favorite set of lines though: "How old would you be if you forgot your birthday?/How would you change your life if you could never die?/Would you do good or do crime?
Nostalgia is ever-present in this album. The song "The Way We Do" talks about incidents with bands such as Face To Face, Simple Plan, and Bad Religion. The song "Let's Ride", my personal favorite off of the album, starts off with the line "About the time that I turned fourteen" and talks about the band's experience growing up. "About the time that I turned sixteen", "About the time I turned nineteen", "There I was at twenty-nine." The video for this song is definitely the est off the album, and many MxPx fans hailed it as one of their best videos ever.
Also on the theme of nostalgia, is the song "Moments Like This", about mortality from the perspective of a guy with kids who knows he won't live forever.
After that are the songs "Uptown streets", a less hard-rocking tune, but still great, "20-20 Hindsight", and four others.
Just listen to the album, it's really fun, but my only problem with it is it's not super deep, or political, or meaningful, or anything like that. That's why it gets a 90/100, instead of 100/100. Also, a few of their earlier albums, like "Life In General", are a bit better. If you want to hear a fun album, check this out. They also have a video playlist with the entire album on it, so if you want to try it before buying it, you can listen to the album in its entirety.
A bit of a warning, though, it does contain very mild cursing on "Rolling Strong", and "Friday Tonight". For some reason, those tracks have explicit tags, but I've heard much worse without an explicit tag. If it was a movie, it would be rated PG, so I don't think of it much as an issue.
