Review Summary: I hope Disney channel is recruiting, because that is where these guys are heading…
Curiosity is a bitch... I’m still asking myself what folly brought me to pick up this monstrosity and give it a listen. For the most part (which is 90% of the album), Forever the Sickest Kids’ self-titled album is a boring, insipid, mess of a pop punk album.
The Main problem with this album is its consistency. Forever the Sickest Kids must have made the most generic pop punk album since the beginning of the year, recycling old clichés and pop hooks that have been done a million times before. First of all, none of the musicians of the band manage to find anything interesting to play. The drums are fairly simple, even for pop punk standards. As for the bass, although audible, it's just lazy, and never plays any fun punk hooks the genre is known to have. Concerning guitars, everything about them (from riffs to progression) is bland and generic. Also, both of them play the same parts as the other, rarely varying the melodies.
Second of all, the vocalist has a solid voice and delivers a fair share of catchy lines, but the same issues of consistency and clichés come up, and in the end he is singing pretty much the same thing over and over again, which leads to skipping most of the songs on the album halfway through the tracks.
As for the lyrics, it is impossible to find anything enjoyable, or remotely mature about them. They seem to have been written for 14 year old girls having a pool party at their B.F.F.’s house. Let's just hope that it was their producer who wrote these nonsensical lines…
To sum up, Forever the Sickest Kids fail this time to bring anything good, or fun to the table. Instead, they deliver a very formulaic record that will have you skipping through songs on the very first listen, most likely “Life of the Party” or “Forever Girl”, which happen to be the most unbearable and childish songs on the album (the former being a synth-pop anthem similar to a Jonas Brother song. The latter, a sappy ballad that even fails to give a good laugh) . If you're looking for a good pop punk experience, might I suggest checking out Go Radio’s “Lucky” and staying as far away from this album as possible? Or if you are looking for something to give to your baby sister for her 10th birthday, Forever the Sickest Kids might just do the trick…
