Up until now Every Avenue were arguably the best band playing this style of summer pop-rock, showing up the likes of We The Kings and The Maine with ease. Tracks like "Tell Me I'm A Wreck" and "Picture Perfect" were Top-40 singles in the making from the last album with the same name of the latter song, and a ballad like "Saying Goodbye" would have even fit nicely on a dramatic love scene on a chick-flick of some sort. But Bad Habits, however, proves to be an album that's really no more than its own title: Every Avenue are going to regress in status with this one, and if they keep making "rocking, live-sounding" albums likes this one with bad-habit songwriting processes, pardon the pun, their future is a sure dead end. Best learn to mature properly, guys, or go back to making the music that you're actually good at making. After all, that's all that anybody wants to hear anyway.
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