Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Get Lost Find Yourself

Chunk Once Again Return With Improved Sound

The French easycore crew dropped this album on the 18th, this is their first album without original drummer Jonathan Donnaes who left back in August last year. 

Chunk really impressed me with 2013's "Pardon My French", I was a big fan of the song's structure, how each song was clearly wrote around a catchy and appealing, almost Four Year Strong-like chorus. I was a fan of Bernard's clean and growled lyrics and how well they were varied throughout each song. Even though this album had it's positives, I did find it quite generic in it's pop punk ways, using recycled breakdowns and riffs we've all heard millions of times before.

Chunk have improved vastly on their new album. The album opens with lead single "Playing Dead" which includes Chunk's trademark catchy, pop punk-like choruses and speedy breakdowns. Bernard Poncet has once again improved vocally and sounds amazing throughout this record, even though there are less growls in this album , it gives Poncet's clean vocals more time in the spotlight and it's definitely made the most of it, his vocal highlights for me are without a doubt track 2 "City of Light" and 4 "Set It Straight" where you really hear another side of Bernard's cleans. Lyrically this album is their strongest and instrumentally too, the metalcore inspired "The Other Line" bring some amazing heavy guitar work of Eric Poncet and Paul Wilson.

Even though Chunk have took less leaves from the Pop-Punk book, their sound still shows shades of other genre powerhouses such as Neck Deep, The Story So Far and A Day To Remember, but the lack of creativity doesn't take away the sheer brilliance of this album.

6/10

/ EASYCORE / POP-PUNK / METALCORE /

FAV TRACKS: - Playing Dead - The Other Line - Set It Straight -

LEAST FAV: - Worst Case Scenario -