Album Review

Bowling For Soup - Lunch. Drunk. LoveBowling For Soup – Lunch. Drunk. Love

When Bowling For Soup announced in April that they were to embark on their last ever UK tour in October I totally forgot that they were working on a brand new fan funded album to coincide with the tour until I received the album ‘Lunch. Drunk. Love’ a couple of days ago which happened to be quite a pleasant surprise.

‘Lunch. Drunk. Love’ is the 12th studio album from Bowling For Soup which happens to be an amazing accomplishment for a band who have been going for 19 years, the album opens with the fun ‘Critically Disdained’ which opens in an acoustic way with Jared Riddick strumming his acoustic guitar and singing-a-long before the rest of the band come in turning the song into a big fun electronic sing-a-long with a huge chorus.

‘When We Broke Up’ is just like a classic Bowling For Soup song that would easily fit in with any of their past 11 studio albums, the song is well written with witty lyrics with Riddick singing “Since we broke up I never have to wash the sheets, I get the mail in my underwear, Since we broke up I can grow out my beard and shave it like I just don’t care, and i’m doing fine without you since we broke up” before the rest of the band come in with backing chants of “lalalalala”.

‘Real’ is easily the biggest sing-a-long song on the album it is quite a serious sounding song about being real and not changing, the lyrics are once again well written to the point that I am sure a lot of people can relate to them as Riddick sings about owning an old skool Volvo and eating a Muller Light whilst all his friends are drinking wine and not changing for anyone.

‘From The Rooftops’ is a fast paced bouncy offering from the start and once again shows how good Jarad Riddick is when it comes to writing lyrics as he sings “She hates my friends, my friends hate here, takes all her time makes me late for work, she’s not another guys name tattooed on her arse, my mum and dad say we are moving too fast” from the beginning and then during the massive chorus “Have you ever been so in love you want to shout it from the roof tops” which is quickly followed up by shouts of “wooooaaah, wooooooaaaah” with Riddick then repeating “Follow your heart fuck everybody else” again and again which could quite possible be the best bit of advice ever from anyone.

‘Circle’ is another song which starts off in an acoustic way with the rest of the band coming in half way through but this time the song stays mellow as Riddick lays his heart on the line questioning being alone and why a friend in his circle of friends doesnt come around anymore.

Lyrically ‘Normal Chicks’ is a fun song as Riddick sings about a chick who is no Pamela Lee, Jessica Biel , Christen Bell but who is a lot of fun, oozes in sex appeal and who looks best in sweat pants with no makeup on and with messed up hair which I am sure anyone who is in loved or fallen in love in the past can relate to.

You would have thought that 12 albums of doing poppy punk that Bowling For Soup would have run out of ideas but that is not the case as ‘Lunch. Drunk. Love’ is yet another solid offering from Bowling For Soup and one that I am sure they are going to include a few songs from in their UK farewell tour this October.

Bowling For Soup may well be giving up on touring the UK but with the release of ‘Lunch Drunk Love’ and talks of an acoustic, covers and greatest hits album in 2014 there is still a lot to come from Bowling For Soup and am I am sure that a lot of people like me wonder how long after this UK farewell tour it will be until the band are back touring the UK as let's face it, it is their second home.

4/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Jaret Reddick
Gary Wiseman
Erik Chandler
Chris Burney
 Track Listing

1. Critically Disdained
2. Since We Broke Up
3. Real
4. From The Rooftops
5. Circle
6. Normal Chicks
7. I Am Waking Up Today
8. Couple Of Days
9. And I Think You Like Me Too
10. Envy
11. How Far Can This Go?
12. Right About Now
13. Kevin Weaver

 Band Related Links
Bowling For Soup Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?