New Found Glory - Listen Up! (February 20, 2026) • Page 2

Solid!

 

Another solid one

 

Absolutely love the ‘Laugh it off’ chorus.

 

2 for 2. High hopes for this album, especially after the last one being pretty bad.

 

yess. song rules.

 

The world is bad, but at least we have NFG.

 

New Found Glory Announce New Album
press release

 

9 variants...I was a bit off but not too far off:
Listen Up! - Black & Yellow Aside/Bside w/ Heavy White & Pink Splatter LP

 

I’m the biggest NFG stan and I’m not blown away but it’s a classic NFG song, and for that I can’t be mad

 

Wait the video is really good hahaha

 

Didn’t realize Dan is now recording with them too.

that riff does sound like it’s got some FYS influence
Love it

 

In for the /300 why not

 

Ill order from amazon once it’s available to save on shipping.

 

A great big hell yeah

 

Song is classic NFG and the video is super fun, Chad is looking a lot better

 

I’m surprised by the negativity in the news section (lol OK not really the news section continues to befuddle me). I think both of the songs from this album have been really good so far.

 

I like the production. Sounds beefy and huge. Drums sound awesome as well.

 

I think I have bit my tongue on this for long enough. I have long been a lurker on this website, but never felt compelled to post until now. I can recall back in the AbsolutePunk days the buzz of excitement I would get seeing a new post from one of my favorite bands. Discovering new artists, and finding a community that shared the same interests as me. I feel like we are at that cusp again with the resurgence of our favorite bands of the past.

New Found Glory has and always be my favorite band. I remember spinning Catalyst to absolute death back in my '03 Honda Civic. So much so that it started to skip on the back half of the album and I needed to go out and buy another. I retroactively discovered Sticks and Stones, self-tilted, and NGCS. To say I was a fan, would be an understatement. Hearing them take risks with Coming Home and FTSTYS2 was unlike any other band I was listening to at the time. Going to see them on the NWAF tour with Bayside, it solidified to me that they could write incredible music and perform it a caliber I had never experienced.

To me, NFG always felt strongest when they took their big swings: Coming Home, Radiosurgery. And felt complicit when they shelled out a "return to form" album like NWAF (in retrospect) and Resurrection. Sure they had a little bit of a band member shakeup, but they were at the peak of their game with Kill it Live's 3 song EP after taking some big changes to their core song writing.

Connect the Dots could have been as big as any single off Sticks and Stones or Catalyst. Blending the hardcore with the melodies they showcased on Radiosurgery, they had a lot going for them as they ventured into their next album. Writing their memorable hooks, choruses that begged to be sang, and bridges that made the place erupt when performed live.

What we got was another back to basics album with Resurrection (again, acknowledging the lineup change) and more or less "We are NFG and know how to write hardcore pop-punk." Some good ideas, but extremely forgettable in their catalogue up to that point. No risks, no innovation. Simply NFG for the sake of more NFG.

Makes Me Sick saw another attempt at a swing, but they couldn't get it to click in the same way Radiosurgery did with the big hooks and pre-choruses they are known for. Aside from Happy Being Miserable, they really didn’t reach the same heights with earworms like they did on albums past. The lukewarm promotion and reception probably resonated with the band as they ventured into their next LP.

Additionally, on those last 2 albums, something else started to emerge as a trend. Cramming pages of nonsensical lyrics into the shortest amount of time possible. Look, I will be the first to admit that NFG's lyrics aren't anything special, but they at least let their songs "breathe" when appropriate. Go listen to Head on Collision or Don't Let Her Pull You Down. Something about the care and consideration of the arrangements made the lyrics easier to belt out at concerts than say a single off their next album, Greatest of All Time. Speaking of Forever and Ever times Infinity, we see another "return to ghosts of NFG past." Tons of songs, tons of lyrics, nothing memorable. All of that coming with a marred production quality. Go listen to the demo version of Puzzles on FTSTYS3 and then listen it again on the deluxe album of Forever and Ever. Every instrument is turned up the max and sounds extremely washed out. Not one of these songs sounds like a veteran pop-punk trying to innovate and reinvent the genre like I know they are capable of doing. All I can hear is "People can't forget about NFG and the fact that we are a band so here is us phoning it in… again."

Let's gloss over Make the Most of It and December's Here for obvious reasons. (Only thing worth mentioning is More than Enough on Make the Most of It which deserved to be redone as a full band).

Before we get to the newest songs, let me also say that not all the songs on the last 3 full band albums are bad. There are glimmers of hope, but for a band coming up on 30 years, they are batting about 10-20% which makes no sense.

Where does that leave us for today? Listen Up! Is going to be there next LP after 6 years. And the first 2 songs are about as by the books as we have come to expect. 100% sounds like a Resurection b-side. Again, cramming in every word they can think of into the verses while having a chorus that I wouldn’t scream even if someone paid me. It has this jarring jump from the verse into the pre-chorus which sounds like someone accidentally cut a full 4 seconds of off the final take, but were too lazy to put it back in. The guitar riff lacks any real finesse, while the drums sound like a weak attempt at imitating the likes of Neck Deep and The Story So Far (both of them having tremendous efforts in the last year with their LPs).

Laugh it Off attempts something in the verse that relies heavily on the influence of their current touring guitarist from Four Year Strong. It’s a welcome change but doesn’t seem like its executed properly once we get to the chorus. It fizzles out before it says anything for itself and is muddied by an overly long intro and outro. The same problem with the lyrics applies here as well. Unmemorable words backed by a more forgetful guitar.

To summarize, we need someone in the band to take a stance when the last decade of albums have felt stale and overly repetitive. To quote the making of Radiosurgery with Neal Avron from Wikipedia "…However, Avron was not overly impressed, stating the songs were "okay, but I don't really think they're that great." The band responded by completing a new set of six tracks, but no avail, as the producer was still not convinced. This left the band frustrated, as they believed the new material to among the best songs they had written. Gilbert was persistent though, and after recording another eight demos that went back-and-forth with the producer, the band announced in November that Avron had agreed to produce the album…"

My ask is to find this New Found Glory again wherever they may be. I know they are capable of writing better songs, and we should hold them accountable as a fanbase.

 

I find both of these singles better than anything off the new Neck Deep and The Story So Far albums

 

Beat me to it. I read the last line and was really glad I didn’t put myself through the rest

 

tl;dr not a fan of the new stuff, wants more of the old magic.

 

I read about a quarter of it. Then skimmed another quarter and stopped.

 

The new neck deep album was incredibly catchy and very well produced , I am still throughly enjoying it. New TSSF yeah. That one didn’t do anything for me.