One of the few major label punk bands with anything of worth to say (which is probably why Fall Out Boy sell so many more records than they do), Sum 41 return with their fourth album.

After their previous, harder-edged album Chuck, this time around the band have swung right back the other way with their most commercial-sounding album yet. It seems that for the last two years the band have been enrolled in the Avril Lavigne School Of Punk Rock.

So, the music may have softened, but the angry political stance picked up on the last album has only grown stronger, no more so than on March Of The Dogs, which a revolution culminating in the violent death of the President, and The Jester, probably the angriest song to ever include a round of chirpy la la las.

In the end it’s hard to tell if the decision to go for such a pop sound was commercial or political. It’s just exciting to find such passion in something aimed at a mass market.

Label: Mercury
Website: www.sum41.com
Release date: 23rd July 2007

Tracklist:

1. Underclass Hero
2. Walking Disaster
3. Speak Of The Devil
4. Dear Father
5. Count Your Last Blessings
6. Ma Poubelle
7. March Of The Dogs
8. The Jester
9. With Me
10. Pull The Chain
11. King Of Contradiction
12. Best Of Me
13. Confusion And Frustration In Modern Times
14. So Long Goodbye
15. No Apologies