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We should've seen this coming really. 18 months on since their less than welcome entrance into the pop-punk arena and Detroit's answer to McFly return once more with another selection of bland-as-you-like punk pop fodder. While their contemporaries such as Green Day, Blink 182 and now Sum 41 are making some conscious efforts to put a bit more attitude behind their previously over-wacky schtick, Good Charlotte's attempts to branch out from last year's atrocious debut album "The Young And The Hopeless" consists of a couple of tracks where they add in some prog-rock pomposity and keyboards sounding like a brain-damaged Genesis.
As for the rest, well suffice to say it's more of the same utterly bland pop-punk with lyrics that make Busted look like the "Holy Bible" era Manics and will induce bile-spitting rage in anyone with even the faintest preconception as to how proper punk rock is supposed to sound. If you really must insist in scraping the US pop-punk barrel right to the very bottom then by all means take a look at this but if you've any sense, just avoid it like the plague.
Rating: 1/10
Reviewed by Andy James
