Album Rating: 5.0

Wild trajectory they had from there

Album Rating: 5.0

YFW is still a banger of a pop-punk LP no clue what you guys are talking about. The albums that came after are all undeniably on a whole different level, though.

Album Rating: 3.5

it just isnt catchy and the vocals and lyrics are really weak. in a year of from here to infirmary and bleed american (neither of which in either respective bands top 5s even) it just does not make a dent. thats okay though they quickly realized it wasnt what they were meant to do

Album Rating: 5.0

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So glad Deja started that separation and TDAG completely severed it. I’m sorry but I truly think if any other band made YFW it would be forgotten just like a thousand other pop punk records. But it being Brand New’s first record makes it kinda special even if it kinda sucks.

Album Rating: 5.0

“I want to be Saul to paul in Damascus

awakened above the masses

the last gasp of god before the rapture

chariotted high above a glass earth”



greatest lyrics ever, it took a while for that track to grow on me but goddamn I love it now

Album Rating: 5.0

Possibly my favorite set of lyrics here as well

Album Rating: 3.5

"YFW is still a banger of a pop-punk LP no clue what you guys are talking about. The albums that came after are all undeniably on a whole different level, though." [2]



Honestly though, most days I would probably pick YFW over Deja. Deja can be a bit nauseating to me.

Album Rating: 3.5

deja has in its own right also aged pretty badly and is impossible to sit through front to back these days so fair i guess

Album Rating: 5.0

Hard pass. There’s some tracks that I don’t think have aged well but there’s others that are amazing. I’d take Guernica, Jaws Theme Swimming, Good to Know, and The Quiet Things over anything on YFW

Album Rating: 3.5

jaws theme is honestly one of the worst for me on that one lol. all i really care about these days are the first like 4 or 5 proper songs and (ironically) maradona which is tragically probably the best on the album



but like good fucking god play crack the sky is like watching paint dry

amen to all of that. could live without Tommy Gun (insufferable ego song) but otherwise that early run + (u g h) Maradona really is the scalp. horrible closer for real, makes fucking Soco Amaretto Lime sound like a beach boys track

Album Rating: 5.0

The good and bad times

Slipping through my eyes

I blend the lows and the highs

Until they all become one lie

Album Rating: 5.0

been few weeks since I jammed this and that was the push I needed thx sowing

Album Rating: 5.0

I haven't been able to really get into 2025 music because of this, it just never leaves my rotation. I'm kind of concerned with what that says about me 😂

Album Rating: 4.5

what the fuck is up with this site and its never ending obsession with Brand New for real lmao

Album Rating: 5.0

looks like they’re getting back together so…

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh man, I somehow missed the Brand New reappraisal convo.



YFW has a few songs that mean a lot to me from the sheer amount of time spent with them, but it really has aged horribly by every metric I can imagine. That being said, Deja has somehow aged even worse lol I legitimately think I would probably only willingly listen to The Quiet Things still and that's it. Everything post-Deja is better and, at the very least, in conversation with Jesse wrestling with the guilt of his horrific actions. YFW and Deja are so misogynist and whiny and creepy, that they scan like justification for them now and just make me feel gross lol



I don't think Foxing (and by extension Smidley) are perfect "competition" or substitutes for Brand New, but it's a fun excercise. On the whole, I think Brand New has the higher highs but Foxing is much more consistent and the highs are still really damn high with them and Smidley.

Album Rating: 3.5

foxing being inconsistent is maybe their biggest defining quality to me lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Idk, for me I think all of their stuff is pretty dang good, but I'm just less interested in actually listening to some thing like Draw Down the Moon than this

Album Rating: 3.5

Nearer My God and Here Comes the Devil easily clear the rest of everything else Conor has done