Radiosurgery is staggeringly the seventh studio albumm of original material from New Found Glory. Being at the forefront of the early nineties pop-punk resurgance, songs like "Hit or Miss", "Dressed to Kill", "My Friends Over You" and "Head on Collision" soundtracked my early teenage years, and those of my friends. Falling into a relative obscurity over the last few years, their latest comeback (although it has in truth only been two and a half years since their last release, the critical and commercial flop "Not Without A Fight") is a return to their early nineties sound.
Linked together by 50s radio styled soundbytes, the album's eleven tracks (15 on the deluxe version, including a very credible "Blitzkrieg Bop" cover) tell a loose story of dealing with a relationship breakup, but concept album this is not. This is a straight up pop punk blast, straight through from opening track and lead single "Radiosurgery" to the closing "Map of Your Body". Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast pops up on "Caught in the Act" and gives a nice contrast to the song, and the album's main highlight, the excellent "Dumped" could have come directly from 2000's self-titled breakthrough.
"Radiosurgery" is as big a surprise as I've heard all year, I simply did not expect an album of this quality from New Found Glory at this stage of their career.
****
Watch: "Radiosurgery"
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