Hopeless Romantic - Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls fourth album is an improvement over its predecessors due to The greater amount of effort that has evidently gone into its creation. No longer does every song sound the same as the last, and the album is a more generous length at over forty minutes. This is still essentially 1990s punk worshipping the classic mainstream tradition and striving for commercial favour, something most evident in the distinct lack of anger present even in the songs that concern fighting, which end up sounding completely amicable thanks to their emphasis on melody; Fight to Live is more of an upbeat party anthem, while the relationship break-up of Wish Me Well (You Can Go ...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation - Bouncing Souls

After experimenting to some degree on their previous effort, t The Bouncing Souls disappointingly decided to settle on a more commercial punk direction for their first album of the new millennium, one that just might be their most irritating yet. Bizarrely, vocalist Greg Attonito seems to have spent his career in the band learning to become increasingly irritating with each release, and here his constant whine is enough to spoil almost every song, only offered respite with his equally poor attempts at a softer singing style in the far-too-frequent punk ballads. This is the variety of punk that will appeal more to fans of Green Day and Blink 182 than the more serious ...