Review Summary: An album so good that I had to tell y’all it’s good. Summary: good/great album. This album also comes with pizzamachine’s stamp of approval, which is serious business indeed.
SUCKERPUNCH is an album so edgy, that the title is in CAPITALS. You might even see a lady on the cover smoking in the bathroom, which some parents might not condone. Wow, I just got shivers. The music is equally edgy, if early 2000s pop rock mixed with modern pop feels antidisestablishmentarianistic to you. To me it feels like tergiversation, but I digress. The edgiest the album gets is with a little metal edge occasionally - quite negligible. Residing in the mainstream, the edginess on display is a mix of Skillet, The Material, and Demi Lovato. Casual fans of music will love this album.
Innovative lyrics here involve complaining about boy problems. These so-called scathing lyrics have a wee bit more power than a dead battery, and reek of someone who didn’t have her daily cup of coffee. I wouldn’t call it poetry in this case, it’s more a weak attempt at an angry diary entry. It seems geared for heart broken teens that thought they found the love of their life in high school, but discovered their boyfriend was an ignorant turd bag. There’s a market here, and it’s not me. Shakespearean witticisms from now on, please, and thank you.
Hooks galore and more sassy hooks upon hooks, with pretty vocals is the game. There’s enough hooks to feed a starving artist, and at least one hook will tickle your pickle. During such catchy moments, generic, uninspired beats will be thrown down. Such moments are many, they smell of radio garbage and I do not like them. Summary so far: the pop rock is plentiful, and hooks keeping many full, whilst rotten beats like decaying vegetables.
I played these songs in my car one day, and rather than fearing that a random Sputniker would hunt me down and call me a pleb***, I felt good. The tunes slapped just hard enough to scare away the boogeyman, and I replaced him when I boogied. In other words, the album is more potent than poisonous berries. Can you dig it? I think you can if you decide to put aside your snobbish tendencies for one sitting, and just have fun. Give in.
