 
A New Found Glory formed in Coral Springs, Florida
back in 1997 and since then they have become one
of the hardest working pop-punk bands ever who
have a ratio of releasing a new album every 2-3
years with various different EP’s and cover
Ep’s being released in-between the album
releases and when they are not releasing new material
they are on the road relentlessly touring across
the world playing sold out shows and hitting up
the major festivals, and so many pop-punk bands
around these days state New Found Glory as their
main influences.
Despite New Found Glory leading such an healthy
career which has seen them become one of the most
talked about pop-punk bands ever, the past year
or so has been a total nightmare for the band
due to founding guitarist and songwriter Steve
Klein being arrested due to very controversial
circumstances, he then quickly got fired from
the band and New Found Glory faced the difficult
decision of carry on as a band and fighting off
the tainted name Steve Klein had brought onto
the band or call it a day, but when you have been
making music with your best friends for the best
part of 17 years calling it a day never is an
option.
Earlier in the year New Found Glory announced
that they had departed Epitaph Records and signed
a deal with Hopeless Records, shortly after this
they unleashed their new single ‘Selfless’
as well as releasing details of their eighth studio
album ‘Resurrection’, an album which
happens to be the most important album of the
bands career so far, an album who’s name
could not be more true and relevant considering
the whirlwind of events the band have gone through
over the past year or so and after listening to
the album it is safe to say that this new four
piece New Found Glory have come out fighting and
easily won as ‘Resurrection’ is easily
the hardest hitting yet catchiest album the band
have ever released.
With ‘Resurrection’ you have to hand
it to Chad Gilbert, with the departure of Steve
Klein he has had to take on the majority of the
song writing and also happens to be the sole guitarist
and he has proved that New Found Glory can work
as a four piece and can also survive as a four
piece as some of the riffs he lays down are so
hard and in your face and so are the lyrics if
you actually take the time to take them on board.
The album kicks off with the lead single ‘Selfless’
and the song is massive opening up with some of
the strongest riffs that New Found Glory have
ever laid down and when Jordan Pundik comes in
his vocals sound as strong as ever as he sings
out “I wanna live selfless, instead of just
floating by living every day like it’s my
last” and “I can catch up on my sleep
when I die”.
The album title track ‘Resurrection’
is a perfect sing-a-long pop-punk track, once
again the guitars are turned up a couple of extra
notches as Chad Gilbert once again proves what
an excellent musician he is and once the group
screams come in of “Burn you down”
you start to realise that New Found Glory have
a lot of built up anger to let off and are doing
it in the best possible way.
As the album progresses you start to wonder if
any of the songs are written about Steve Klein
or if it is just a big coincidence that New Found
Glory have wrote some negative themed songs at
such an convenient time as the likes of ‘The
Worst Person’ with lyrics of “You
might be the worst person I’ve ever met,
I’ve ever known, you keep doing all that
shit that you regret” sounds ever so likely
that it’s about Steve Klein.
The whole of ‘Resurrection’ flows
so fast and the likes of ‘One More Round’,
‘Persistent’, ‘Stories Of A
Different Kind’, ‘Degenerate’
and ‘Angel’ are instantly going to
be live favourites with their insanely catchy
choruses and big in your face riffs with ‘Stories
Of A Different Kind’ and ‘Degenerate’
instantly shining over the other mentioned songs.
Overall you can tell that a lot of heart and soul
has been put into ‘Resurrection’ and
that New Found Glory have been forced into a much
more mature hard hitting sound before their time
but it works, in fact it works really well and
I can’t wait for New Found Glory to touch
down in England in November and play a number
of these new songs along with their classics on
their forthcoming ‘Pop Punks Not Dead’
tour.
5/5
Review by Trigger
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