New Found Glory – Tip Of The Iceberg

For many hardcore kids, the extent of pop punk that they listen to is some old Lifetime records, but with this album New Found Glory shows that hardcore can be more poppy than that. From the poppy breakdowns to the wonderfully executed Lifetime and Gorilla Biscuits cover, this is more of just a fun record, that hard dudes can have fun to when they listen to it. It has the standard pop that New Found Glory obviously possesses, but adds a little more of a hard personality to the music, as noted on the track Dig My Own Grave, with a decently heavy breakdown and more aggressive vocals than usual at certain points. This record is overall much faster than the usual New Found Glory record, which is important to note because this is not the usual, New Found Glory wanted to record a hardcore record that would go back to their roots and they did a great job. The aforementioned Lifetime cover of Cut The Tension is probably one of my favourite hardcore covers ever. All and all if I rated things on a scale this would be high but not too high…Fun band, legit band, good music. Keep in mind this record was released on Bridge 9 and is available in their webstore.

Oh, and the other half of this release, The International Superheroes of Hardcore…. its just not good.