Good Charlotte - 'The Young & The Hopeless' (Epic)
2/5
By: Toby L
A slightly more mature offering from the band that brought you such classics as 'Lifestyles Of The Rich & The Famous' and 'Girls & Boys'.
A band that fans of the long-absent Blink 182 (yet back soon) had been yearning for ('They connect with the misery of youth, man'); for others, such pseudo-teenage-angst is enough to contemplate topping themselves. And perhaps for the latter, it is because they remember Green Day first time 'round, a triumvirate arguably grasping the credibility that goes hand-in-hand with earnest feeling and successfully breaking a market without shiny green dollar signs clouding vision.
'The Young & The Hopeless' sees GC in 'meaningful' mode, though at the utilising of predictable 'loud-quiet-loud-louder' rotations. 'Hold On' is considerable better, a subtler meander with an 80's U2-style bend, unfortunately mutating back to the usual, precocious formula with some growly Deftones moments to boot. Despite the attempt to tackle heavy issues - 'Your mother's gone, and your father hits you/This pain I cannot bear' - even the words prove tough to stomach when the music possesses such processed soul.
Artists in this article: Good Charlotte
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