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Better Days
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YELLOWCARD – better days – album review
After releasing their self-titled tenth studio album in 2016, Yellowcard went their separate ways with a sense of mission achieved. Five years later however and the call of nostalgia brought them out of their hiatus for an anniversary celebration of their seminal release, ‘Ocean Avenue’.
Now almost a decade since their last full-length album, the band are back with their eleventh record, ‘Better Days’. Better days indeed because anytime we’re treated to new Yellowcard is always a good day!
The bands unique take on the pop-punk brand always stirred emotions and elicited joyous feelings amongst. Now pushing towards their third decade as a band they still hold that same power.
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Along for the ride this time on production is Blink 182 icon Travis Barker, who adds a new dynamic to the bands sound. That is enhanced by the fact Barker himself performs drumming duties across the ten new tracks. This does at times sprinkle some Blinkish influence into the mix but that’s not often a bad thing.
Indeed, Barker isn’t the only Blink alumni to feature on the record with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba contributing to ‘Love Letters Lost’. Avril Lavigne is also here in a guest slot on ‘You Broke Me Too’ and both tracks are fantastic.
At just over thirty minutes long this is another lovely pop punk romp which flies by with thoroughly enjoyable abandon. A record of healing and growth, this is Yellowcard of 2025 and it’s wonderful!
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The 2023 Full Pelt Awards are here and you can have your say from our shortlists below!
Votes here will be tallied with those on Social Media, plus weighted votes from our Full Pelt staff with the winners all revealed in a special Magazine on New Year’s Day!
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Childhood Eyes
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When Yellowcard disbanded back in 2017, that was it, there were no plans for live shows let alone new music, it was the end of an era. Thankfully things changed when the group returned at last year’s Riot Fest.
Now the next step has arrived with the band offering new music in the shape of new EP, ‘Childhood Eyes’. The reflective record sees the band sonically embracing their 2007 album, ‘Paper Walls’, but ultimately capturing the essence of everything that made the band so loved.
The title-track of the five song EP is particularly heralding of a clichéd return to form and could be placed on any of their iconic releases and still hold its own. The other tracks will have you bouncing, they will tug on your heartstrings and will make you fall in love with the Yellowcard all over again!
‘Childhood Eyes’ is certainly Yellowcard at their finest and whets the appetite for what’s still to come.