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Coming Home, New Found Glory
If there's a review written anywhere in the world that doesn't mention the words 'grown up' or 'mature' I'll eat a hat. A band loved by millions for their pop-punk bouncy anthems that spawned a tonne of soundalikes, 'Coming Home' is slower, more considered, rock album - and nothing like a punk one. It's a million miles from 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'. Even Jordan's vocal whine has been toned down. And while the sum of these parts has not created a bad album, it's just sub-par by New Found Glory's own standards. If this was any other band, there wouldn't be a problem - but this doesn't quite reach the very high benchmark the band have set themselves.The number of slower songs outnumbers the faster ones greatly, taking away some of the urgency that I personally love about the band. And for possibly the first time on a NFG record, there are actually bad songs - 'Too Good To Be' and 'Familiar Landscapes' just aren't that hot at all. Now I know I've started off on quite a negative footing, but this album isn't all that bad...I guess I'm just a little disappointed because I'm looking back at what the band have done previously, rather than thinking about how bands mature and how they grow musically. And I have to mention that because songs such as 'Oxygen' and 'Hold My Hand' are great songs in anyones book.
The album's title track is surely a single-in-waiting, a song that has the bounce and energy of a track from their previous albums. And, for a short while at least, it's this song (catchiest chorus of the year anyone?) which re-ignites the band's spark. 'Love and Pain' is another which is more upbeat and one of the better tracks and 'Boulder' is a pretty good one too. The one thing that saves 'Coming Home' from the scrapheap is that it is a grower - when I first listened to this album hardly anything stood out and I was very disappointed. But on repeated listens I have grown to love some of the songs and while it's still not a patch on the self-titled album, one of the pop-punk classics, it's still not a bad album. NFG have set the bar pretty high and this doesn't quite reach those heady heights - but it's still not bad at all...
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