It's genuinely baffling to me the hills people will die on sometimes. This is a completely passable punk pop album a la Avril Lavigne, but because it's from the person that put out Exile In Guyville, it's apparently worth a 0.0 from Pitchfork?
The production is slick, punchy in all the right places, a little dated but none moreso than anything else it would've been fighting on the charts with. The songwriting on the "poppy" singles is honestly still incredibly ... read more