Everything We Left Behind - Pull Back and Go - CD (2009)

Labels: self released
Review by: Samuel Fowler

This was a tricky one. I’m in two minds over this. Maybe even 3 or 4
minds when it comes down to it. A many-minded beast in fact.

Everything We Left Behind don’t dawdle or stick around. Certainly not,
Officer. Rather they’ve already skated halfway down the street. It’s
them there kids over there, the ones with the No Use for a Name and
NOFX shirts. The scruffy ones that were throwing empty Carlsberg cans
at my cat. Kids these days.

Nar nee nar nar nar. Wooah woooh. Straight up pop punk chords,
duelling vocalists, all rapid-fire snotty songs and brash attitude. I
suspect this is the point (before we go any further) I am obliged to
point out that I reckon the band probably own a copy each of Dude
Ranch. I suspect furthermore, with my Sherlock-like wits, that they
are also well versed in the rest of the Blink 182 back catalogue,
including the b-sides, rarities, and side projects. With the addition
of some further educated guessing, I would venture to speculate that
they can play a few Blink 182 songs note perfect.

It’s not just “Everything…” sound a bit like Blink 182, or maybe have
a few songs that sound reminiscent here and there, More that if I
didn’t know better, I would think that this was a brand new Blink 182
album, albeit somewhat off form. Both singers have the balance that
Mark and Tom have, the guitars pogo around the place, probably the
only way to tell the difference is the slight English tang to the
singing. Weird.

Not attempting to detract from the music, they had the plan of action
sorted, clearly knew where they were aiming, hitting squarely
amidships. Definitely one for the folk who think that music stopped
with “œLess Talk, More Rock” in 1996.