★★★★★
[Britt Reiser is a contributing editor at Punknews.org]
Despite the fact that I started prepping for this list in January (talk shit on Spotify all you want, but what a handy place to store a "2014 New Releases" playlist), it was still incredibly difficult to put together. Especially the top three, I've rearranged the top three twice since completing this task.
Overall, 2014 was good to me...
- www.punknews.org
2014-12-31
★★★★★
I feel that in writing a review for a new Comeback Kid album, it is paramount to address the obvious. Sometimes when people feel your first offering is always your best one, it may seem than any subsequent offerings may be made in jest and just can never measure up. For those people whatever is new is something that just doesn't capture its original glory. Ultimately for any band, a challenge like that sometimes could prove to be difficult, and it is especially true when you are a hardcore band...
- www.punknews.org
2014-03-05
★★★★★
Comeback Kid are one of those seminal bands, not in the way that their music has had some sort of lasting impact on the scene, but in the way that for an entire generation -- those who came of age in the era of Victory Records in the first half of the 2000s' - they were that first stepping stone away from the mall kid trends and into more traditionalist forms of hardcore. At the same time, this is both their greatest strength and weakness when looking at their career...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-03-01
★★★★★
Comeback Kid have been haunted by the loss of former vocalist Scott Wade since his departure following 2005's . The following albums weren't bad, per se, but was judged in the shadow of Wade's then-recent departure, while reined in the speed and intensity fans craved. On their third album since Andrew Neufeld moved to vocals, Comeback Kid were poised to lose it altogether, but pleasantly, they instead knock out of the park...
- exclaim.ca
2014-03-01
★★★★★
It has been 4 years since Comeback Kid dropped their last album, Symptoms + Cures, but the boys are finally back with a new offering, and it is a killer! With the perfect marriage of punk and hardcore music, they have released an offering that not only reaffirms why they are an essential band for both genres, but also re-establishes their place as one of the top bands in both genres! Die Knowing is the band's fifth album and the third one with Andrew Neufeld on vocals...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2014-02-05
★★★★★
Sound: This band is faced-pace and intense hardcore at its absolute best. These guys make terrific use of their two guitarists with almost all of the guitar parts being two at once and rarely just one big riff; not that it doesn't stay heavy though. And of course its all topped of with arrangements that keep you up. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are heart-felt, aggressive and suit the music perfectly...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Listen To: Balance Skip It: Manifest Canada's hardcore heroes are back with their fourth studio album Symptoms + Cures, marking the second album with Andrew Neufeld shifting from guitar to frontman after Scott Wade departed. This shift saw CBK move further away from traditional hardcore and experiment with more melodies and more epic buildups/breakdowns then heard on Turn It Around and Wake the Dead...
- www.tangiblesounds.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
In a recent interview with Alter The Press!, Comeback Kid drummer Kyle Profeta was quoted as saying "I'm not saying it's a pop-punk record, but it's definitely not as dark as 'Broadcasting' was." What's so bad about a pop-punk record? The hooks? The (mostly) upbeat song structures? Or is it just all the negative connotations surrounding the term "pop-punk?" Whatever it may be, ignore it...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Sound: Comeback Kid comes back in style with the introductory Do Yourself a Favour. For hardcore punk, it doesn't clock the fastest time on the grid, but acts more like a monster truck, sweeping clear everything that lies in its way. By the time the gang vocals have finished their work, Crooked Floors kicks in with real hardcore style and, most notably, speed. A melodic track, it is one of the albums exemplary tracks, embracing sing along choruses and melody only beaten by the next song: G.M...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
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