Sam Rich
Staff Writer
“Punk Goes Pop Volume 6” proves to be mediocre and fails to be as good as previous volumes due to squeaky vocals from random bands that struggle to make the songs original.
Despite the fact that most songs on the album are outdated, the bands chosen for the covers aren’t as talented as those on previous albums. Almost all of the bands try too hard to make the song either punk or metal and they clearly don’t succeed at making the album relevant.
Under Fearless Records, 16 albums full of covers and acoustic versions of popular songs have been produced, six of them are “Punk Goes Pop.” Fearless Records was founded in 1992 by Bob Becker and is currently based in Westminster, California. Their current artists include Pierce The Veil and Real Friends.
Tyler Carter from Issues and Luke Holland from The World Alive start off the album with “Ain’t It Fun” and completely butcher it. The vocals are painfully nasal at best. The song stays at the same dull pace the entire time and the artist doesn’t change anything to make it original.
A relatively bearable track is “I Knew You Were Trouble” with upbeat guitar riffs and vocals by We Came As Romans changed the speed of the instruments to keep the song interesting. The song begins with shaky vocals but eventually progresses to occasionally powerful vocals.
Inevitably, the popular hip pop song “Turn Down For What” was covered. The band Upon A Burning Body and Ice-T surprised with a song that lives up to the original. It had a metal sound where the electronic beats were replaced with heavy guitar to make it original and worth listening to.
Oceans Ate Alaska covered Beyoncé’s “Drunk In Love” and showed they have talent with powerful vocals and drums helped the song stand out. The band changed up the song fantastically by heavy metal screaming Jay Z’s rap to keep the song upbeat.
Knuckle Puck tried their hardest to cover The 1975’s “Chocolate”, but their whiny vocals failed them. The band tried to hard to sound like the original by occasionally sounding British, even though they are from Chicago. Knuckle Puck did not change the beat or instruments, which negatively impacted the song.
Throughout the album, the desperation of bands is overwhelming. The bands chosen were bad and couldn’t live up to the previous volumes. The lack of originality was obnoxious and boring.
“Punk Goes Pop Volume 6” is available on iTunes and in retail for $9.99
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