Wishful Thinking

Critic Score
Based on 2 reviews
User Score
Based on 129 ratings
2014 Ratings: #631
January 14, 2014 / Release Date
LP / Format
Hopeless / Label
Pop Punk / Genre
Full Credits
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Critic Reviews

50
AllMusic
If you have an bottomless appetite for Warped Tour-appropriate pop-punk buffed with enough digital sheen that you could use it as a mirror, you might want to take a chance on Neck Deep.
Combat
93

Great album absolutely loved it. Best song was zoltar speaks, losing teeth, crushing greif, growing pains

45

Favourites:
Losing Teeth,Crushing Grief (No Remedy),Zoltar Speaks,Candour

NikolGZuss
88

An addictive debut.

Neck Deep's first album is honestly a perfect blueprint for what they'd go on to do on their next few albums. This album slaps. The riffs here are probably some of the cleanest in their entire discography, and Ben's vocals here are the most pissed and punk they've ever sounded. Great album to kick off a career.

Favorite song(s):
Crushing Grief (No Remedy)
Zoltar Speaks
Candour
What Did You Expect?

Least favorite song(s):
Mileage
Sweet Nothings

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BananaORO
58

🍌 Whenever the sun starts heating up the UK, I do find myself gravitating to this sound. I also find it difficult to listen to this album without also thinking of the American pop-punk bank "The Story So Far", especially their albums "Under Soil and Dirt" & "What You Don't See" as my friend put me onto this together around 2013-14.

I do not really listen to this sort of music, in the past, we're talking about 2005-2012 I would of been all over a ... read more

Truman_D84
77

Favorite Songs: Crushing Grief (No Remedy), Staircase Wit, Sweet Nothings, What Did You Expect, and Blank Pages

This is like the transitional period between there messy hardcore starts to their current pop punk sound and it works. This album has tons of super catchy song, the choruses pop and the drums kind of carry the instrumentals but not in a bad way. It’s not my favorite, I still think “Life’s Not Out To Get You” and their self titled are better but it is a really ... read more

NikolGZuss
88

An addictive debut.

Neck Deep's first album is honestly a perfect blueprint for what they'd go on to do on their next few albums. This album slaps. The riffs here are probably some of the cleanest in their entire discography, and Ben's vocals here are the most pissed and punk they've ever sounded. Great album to kick off a career.

Favorite song(s):
Crushing Grief (No Remedy)
Zoltar Speaks
Candour
What Did You Expect?

Least favorite song(s):
Mileage
Sweet Nothings

EDIT: ... read more

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