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| 4.0 excellent | Julio Babilonia | July 17th 07 |
Paper Walls manages to surpass the musical upgrade that was Lights and Sounds demonstrating that Yellowcard is a band with true potential and not just a better Simple Plan. Consistently solid and with great musicianship, Paper Walls is an album that one can really enjoy. The lack of deeper and stronger hooks and the lack of a bit more violin play are some of the flaws that hold back a potentially head-turning album. An album really worth checking out (especially for pop-punk fans) because it might not be superb, but it is still an album that will be very much enjoyed and a very good fun time.
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| 5.0 classic | 3waycrash | January 28th 16 |
This is the album that solidified the place that Yellowcard has in my life as one of, if not my favorite band. Everything from the guitars, drums, violin, singing, lyrics, and musical themes and ideas are some of the band's best and show a sign of maturity and growth for the band. From the get go this album is filled with fast and concise drum work, catchy vocal lines, great guitar work, beautifully mixed in violin parts; all things that are to be expected out of Yellowcard now. Where Ocean Avenue was the youthful summer of life, Paper Walls is that transition to moving on. It's looking at the past, to good times and also regrets, but not dwelling there. It's looking to the future for brighter things. As depicted with the album artwork on the front and back, it's the transition from the night of the past to the morning of the future. As said by Ryan Key, "I think it's impossible to spend as much as time with the people you love and depend on, and not put up walls between each other. I guess it felt like we were all sitting in our own little houses, and separated by the walls we had put up between each other, realizing that those walls were paper thin. We needed to escape. It was time to burn them down."
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| 4.0 excellent | alextheantichrist | December 5th 11 |
This album is probably one of the pop punk albums I would listen to constantly and never put away. It's very catchy, very strong in instrumentation and fast pace punk that I love.
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| 2.5 average | Ossacip Olbap | August 23rd 23 |
they get so close to trv bangers so many times but it just never assimilates
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| 3.0 good | tellah | December 15th 16 |
Paper Walls seems like an attempt to return to their more straight-forward pop punk sound heard on Ocean Avenue after some experimentation on previous album Lights & Sounds. Unfortunately, some of the tracks are quite bland, and a strange mix that is off-putting. There's enough solid music here to make a great EP, but overall this feels like a regression after the last two albums.
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| 3.5 great | IAmKickass | February 25th 11 |
'Paper Walls' has it's moments of glory, and the undeniable talent of this band still seems intact, but you can't help but feel like you've heard it all before. Keeping that familiar sound you come to expect from Yellowcard isn't a bad thing, but not seeming to even try to expand your sound is another thing. A little more mature than anything the band has released yet, it shows signs of growing up, and that's a huge step for the band. 'Paper Walls' is still a fantastic album, no matter how familiar it seems to sound.
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| 3.0 good | Jattel | February 4th 08 |
I am a big fan of Yellowcard, so I might be a bit biased. I loved their new album and most of the songs on it. It is a lot different than "Lights and Sounds" and less political. Great album. It also shows how much they have improved and changed since the beginning of their careers. Great band.
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