‘Sandbox’
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THE All-american rejects – sandbox – album review
If we flashback to 2008, The All-American Rejects were one of the hottest bands in rock music with a string of big hits making them mainstays of radio and music TV. The band seemed to have the world at their feet.
Whilst 2012’s ‘Kids in the Street’ didn’t set the world alight; it also wasn’t a terrible album by any stretch of the imagination. Nobody would’ve predicted back then that it would take fourteen long years for the band to release their next record!
That is the case however with the band having been in and out of hibernation over the intervening years with a splattering of singles and some occasional touring. Album number five is finally here however in the shape of ‘Sandbox’.
A stream of singles has built to the release in recent months, so fans already have a very good idea of what to expect, but it’s nice to have the album in our hands at last.
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With themes of aging and understanding adulthood, it seems too obvious to point out that this is a mature album. Sonically as well as lyrically the band have grown and that means that some of that old playful appeal is gone. But that doesn’t mean that their overall charm has faltered with these songs still more than capable of stimulating a range of emotions.
The charismatic allure of frontman Tyson Ritter remains untamed but with their fanbase now older as well, these songs are all too relatable. Getting older is scary and navigating what the world has become is terrifying. Music however has the power to centre the psyche and ground our emotions.
Having The All-American Rejects back in our lives and providing that essential escape is therefore a wonderful thing, and with ‘Sandbox’ delivering so well; let’s hope that album number six isn’t another fourteen years away!
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