Labels: Fat Wreck Chords
Review by: Ian Cavell
Good Riddance return with a new 10″, loaded with tunes to get the kids thinking. Perhaps. Anyway, I’m tired and can’t be arsed to mince words with this review. This is good, for one song at least. Buy it if only to feast upon the amazing ‘Start at Zero’. Slow melodic opening, passionate vocals, quality melodic punk-rock and yes, its got that groove. The kind of song that you can get totally caught up in. Very, very, very amazing. But its at this point that I realise that Good Riddance fucking rock when they play fucking melodic punk, but kind of flag when they attempt the hardcore. I don’t know why, it just doesn’t grab me in the same way. Perhaps this is the reason I was so indifferent to the last LP. For while tracks like ‘Uniontown’ and ‘Undefeated’ certainly have all the right moves, there is something about them that left me distinctly unfulfilled.
In an ideal world every Good Riddance song would be as good as ‘Start at Zero’, but the world isn’t ideal and that makes me very sad.