Pop Punks great-grandchildren ‘Neck Deep’ are back this year with only their second album. Neck Deep are a 5-piece pop punk band from Wrexham in North Wales. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I discovered their song ‘Part of Me’ whilst vigorously searching through YouTube for new music to make me happy. Time has flown by in the past year but anyway; Neck Deep have released the lead single from their 2nd album (Coming out August 14th) ‘Life’s Out To Get You’ and it’s called ‘Can’t Kick Up The Roots’. The song starts with quite a heavy fast paced rhythm guitar riff with a top layer of a higher pitched lead guitar riff (pretty standard for modern pop punk). The guitar slows down for the verses just playing single sustained powerchords and a lead part of just a few notes. On this record the drums and guitars sound great and on this single the lead singer Ben Barlow’s voice sound a lot cleaner and easier to understand the lyrics than the previous album in my opinion. The chorus is a standard fast paced sing along ‘Neck Deep’ chorus; Anyone who is a fan of them will know what I’m talking about. Despite this song being under 3 minutes they manage to get a ‘Sum 41’ style breakdown and a short ‘A Day To Remember’ crowd sing-a-long part of a chorus. The lyrical content seems to be based on being stuck in your hometown and trying to find any way out possible. Luckily for them they started a band that got a bit of fame and have managed to escape. This song being released has got me very excited to be seeing them at Slam Dunk North Festival on May 23rd. Check out this new song! (If you have never heard of them before then I seriously recommend that you buy their album ‘Wishful Thinking’ or listen to their track ‘Part of Me’)
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