Ohio's favorite pop punk boy band is back. "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... But Three Do" is Relient K's third release on Gotee Records.
Relient K is three cups of pop and one cup of punk. They often get compared to Blink 182 and Sum 41.
"Two Lefts Don't Make a Right" is atypical Relient K. There are some silly songs, some hits with clever lyrics, a couple of CCM tracks and a few chick references. Their songs have that addictive radio quality that stick with the listener long after the CD stops spinning. But unlike other punk bands, Relient K's songs never end in less than three minutes.
The strongpoint of Relient K is their lyrics and melodies in songs like "Mood Ring," "Forward Motion," "In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)," "College Kids," "Hoopes I Did it Again" and "Jefferson Aero Plane." "Mood Ring" says "Let's get emotional girls to all wear mood rings / So we'll be tipped off to when they're ticked off." "Hoopes I Did it Again" says, "Cause we always say in Canton / You can't enjoy (Canton joy) yourself." "College Kids" says, "80 grand later I found out that all I had learned / Is that you should show up to take your finals and your midterms."
Relient K's biggest problem is that they walk a tight rope between being a serious band and a group of adolescent icons. Because of that their albums show two different sides of the band. Songs like "Gibberish," "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things like Chemistry," the untitled track and the bonus track show an immature and obnoxious side of Relient K. The rest of the album is pretty decent, but what's probably happening is that Relient K is trying to slowly mature to not lose teeny-bopper fans.
"Two Lefts Don't Make a Right" is probably better than "The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek." It's also probably the best pop punk disc this side of MxPx's upcoming album.
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