IT SEEMS that even angry young men can suffer broken hearts.
One listen of Good Morning Revival and you're struck by the number of songs centred on a mystery break up: Victims Of Love; Where Would We Be; Break Apart Her Heart; Broken Hearts Parade, March On.
It just seems a little bizarre that the band behind pop punk greats like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Girls and Boys would choose to ditch the fun and go, relatively, M-O-R.
The single Keep Yours Hands Off My Girl is about the only decent song here: it's got a great riff, a catchy chorus and a swagger.
The rest is very much emo-lite.
Where Would We Be is a particularly soppy ballad with a piano riff that owes an awful lot to Coldplay. River is worthy of mention, if only because it eases off the heartbreak theme and explores their new homestead of LA instead. Whereas All Black is worthy (?) of mention because it is practically a rock version of All Rise by Blue.
Terrible.
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