Album Review
Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad NewsBroadway Calls – Good Views, Bad News

Everyone’s favourite band from Oregon, Broadway Calls are back with their second full length studio album ‘Good Views, Bad News’ the album was written and recorded soon after they finished their tour supporting Alkaline Trio across Europe back in February and is due for release on the 17th August, and trust me when I say this, the album is fantastic and the best poppy-punk album you will hear all year well unless Blink 182 surprise with a new album with the end of the year but I wouldn’t bet your house on that just yet.

If you have grown up on early Blink 182, Green Day, Less Than Jake and also pretty much any band that have been signed to the Drive Thru Records label over the past ten years then you are going to get a lot of enjoyment out of ‘Good Views, Bad News’ as the album is as good and as upbeat as each and every one of these bands and it is guaranteed that the album will constantly be booming out of your stereo as once you listen to it you will be hooked.

The album starts off with a major positive moment with the extremely infectious ‘Midnight Hour’, you will start off tapping along to the song and by the end of it the infectious chorus will be lodged in your head and you will find yourself singing it over and over again whilst thinking happy thoughts.

‘Be All That You Can’t Be’ is the current single from Broadway Calls, and the lead single they chose to release to promote the album and it is an fantastic choice as the song oozes with style and confidence, this is the same Broadway Calls that everyone first fell in love with back in 2005 but they have just got that little bit more mature and confident and you can clearly notice that within the songs on ‘Good Views, Bad News’.

‘Election Night’ has a real strong New Found Glory feel about it, vocally the song is very strong and instrumentally Broadway Calls give it their all with Josh Baird constantly smacking the hell out of his drums executing an upbeat drum beat, the bass lines from Matt Koenig are very infectious and bouncy whilst Ty Vaughn leads the pack with really bright and happy sounding power punk guitar riffs.

The real highlight of the album comes on ‘To The Sheets’ the song is real fast paced happy poppy punk song that have Green Day style guitar riffs and drum rolls which just scream out look how much we rock, whilst vocally and lyrically the song is a proper sing-a-long affair and the last 20 seconds or so of the song when the whole band chant along is just epic and is guaranteed to become a fan favourite, it is already a favourite with me and I personally can’t wait to hear the song live.

Another song that is also bound to become a fan favourite is ‘Tonight’s Alive’ the song starts with Josh Baird drumming along with a military style drum beat and the drum beat pretty much maintains its pace throughout the whole song, vocally the song comes across very strong with the gang vocals coming from Ty Vaughn and Matt Koenig.

‘Good Views, Bad News’ is the perfect soundtrack to the summer and it couldn’t be released at a better time, slap bang in the middle of the British summer, it is just a shame that the bright weather isn’t here so you can enjoy this fine slice of poppy punk at a BBQ with your friends whilst enjoying a few cold beers, but you never know Broadway Calls might be able to make history and change the English weather for the better with this fine album release.

Broadway Calls are the new pop-punk heroes and they are just waiting for you to pick up on them as once you do you won’t be able to put them down and shake the infectious sounds away from your head, go and pre order ‘Good views, Bad News’ now as you will not hear a finer pop-punk album in long time.

5/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members

Ty Vaughn (Guitar, Vocals)
Matt Koenig (Bass)
Josh Baird (Drums)
 Track Listing
1. Midnight Hour
2. Be All That You Can't Be
3. Election Night
4. Basement Royalty
5. To The Sheets
6. Give Up The Ghost
7. Sundowners
8. Tonight Is Alive
9. Best Year
10. Wake Up Call
11. At The End
12. The Call Out
 Band Related Links
Broadway Calls Myspace
Broadway Calls Website
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?