By: Caitlin Hoffman
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

Admittedly, I’ve always been wary of the punk pop/emocore mesh scene. I’m all for catchy tunes and skinny jeans, but I never found anything truly satisfactory within that genre. No matter how far I searched, I never found anything that kept me going back for more or hitting the repeat button. That is, until All Time Low.

This band is fresh, young, and clearly jonesing to make some music happen. Their unrestrained lyrics, habit-forming tracks, and appreciatively clever attitude towards the lifestyle they represent all make them a unique band that can do far more than make you bounce up and down to their luscious beat.

Seeing as they started out as a highschool band playing Green Day covers, they’ve really come a long way. In 2009 they were touring with Fall Out Boy, Metro Station, and Cobra Starship, and their first live debut was supporting the Plain White T’s in 2007. Although their first two albums were full of spunk, their third album, Nothing Personal (released in 2009) was the record that really lit up the charts for the group.

Although, like many new pop punk bands, it seems that they’ve been controlled to an extent by different labels, the longer they stay on the music scene, the more control they seem to exert over the choices they make about their musical direction. Even their name implies the fact that they appreciate the classic punk philosophy of admiring the bad and chastising the successful (and it’s obvious they appreciate the irony of the success of punk music as well). It may just seem like they’ve jumped into the spotlight just to goof around, but if you look close enough you can tell that they really love the music they make, and they just want to make their fans happy.

Tongue and cheek and full of flavour, these guys are on their way up, and they’re not going to let anyone bring them down. Listen to Weightless (the song that got me hooked) below.
　

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