 It's been a while since New Found Glory released a new album, and in my opinion, they should have waited longer and for them to have an albums worth of their own material. Their new album "FROM THE SCREEN TO YOUR STEREO - PART 2" consists of the band’s own take on soundtrack songs from popular movies from the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. SWEET FANNY ADAMS! Self-produced by the band in a studio in Tyler, TX, many of the band’s friends came by to lend a helping hand on vocals including Lisa Loeb, Adam Lazarra from Taking Back Sunday, Will Pugh from Cartel and Sherri DuPree from Eisley.
There frankly doesn't seem to have been much thought put into the structure of this album or the choice of tracklisting. Although the NFG cover versions tend to be feistier and more energentic than the original versions, you have to question whether it was the right move putting this out as an album or instead opting to release it as a more compact EP as they did with their 2000 EP From The Screen To Your Stereo, which has sold more than 273K copies to date. It is also highly apparent that NFG have jumped on the current bandwagon, and invested in the synthetic sound of HelloGoodbye, and loads of the other synthy based bands of the moment.
It seems that New Found Glory have a massive case of writers block YET AGAIN, and have had to resort to put us all through a full length album made up of songs from movies just to fulfil this years record contract obligations!
This album lacks originality, proper organisation and thought. It also lacks any reason whatsoever that will make you want to go out and buy it. Review written by Hannah Eklund
Edited by Altsounds.
Last edited by altsounds : September 28, 2007 at 10:57 PM.
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