Artist: With the Punches
Album: Seams and Stitches
Genre: Pop Punk
Label: Doghouse Records
There is a style of pop-punk that I don’t like. It’s the poppy-breakdown kind. There are some bands out there that just have this sound, may it be something in their vocals or their guitar tones that I find very bland, boring, and frankly annoying. Sometimes they have breakdowns, and that I find that deafeningly stupid (rule of thumb, if you have to have a breakdown in your pop-punk song do everything you can to make it sound nothing like Chunk! No Captain Chunk). With the …

