“Cigarettes & Saints” lacks a repetitive chorus, focusing more on the story being told and remains one of the more popular songs on the album as well as one of my personal favorites. The title song “No Closer To Heaven” ends the album on a calmer note with it’s acoustic sound. Fans of Man Overboard, Mayday Parade, The Maine, and others will appreciate the pop-punk style of music that remains unchanged from The Wonder Years’ previous albums. this appears twice, once in “Brothers &” and again in the bridge of “Cardinals”. It’s not an album of randomly selected and unconnected songs, but a story told throughout with recurring lyrics such as “We’re no saviors if we can’t save our brothers”. There’s a story to it comparable to My Chemical Romances’ Danger Days. Possibly the best part of the album is how everything connects. Going from crying about their own problems to referencing real life struggles that real people deal with, No Closer To Heaven has moments of heartbreaking realism. Going from crying about their own problems to On The Wonder Years’ fifth studio album, the band shows off a darker side of themselves. On The Wonder Years’ fifth studio album, the band shows off a darker side of themselves. Nostalgic of the Punk Pop Rock glory days of the 2000s The Wonder Years have created quite the treat with their 5th studio ALBUM. In between its intro and its conclusion we feel joy, revenge, sadness, and of course anger as we feel the lyrics of each song go through our ears to our souls. The Album starts and ends soft and strong with Brothers & and the title track. They tell a relatable story through passionate vocals and through incredibly honest lyrics. Love, break-ups, and life has ups and downs and thats how The Wonder Years connect to their audience. Stories change emotion they have highs and lows.
No Closer to Heaven tells a story the way a story was meant to be to told. A personal favorite being the honesty of Palm Reader, and A Song for Patsy Cline, and finally the transition from the punk rocked induced I Don't Like Who I Was Then to the softer Cigarettes & Saints is pure genius. The uniqueness of A Song for Earnest Hemingway is an great track on its own. The changes of pace within Stained Glass Ceilings, and You in January sums up the passions and emotions of the album perfectly. The tracklist has its highlights for sure, the guitar riff of Cardinals stands out as an instrumental highlight. The listener is guided through emotions and changes of pace that just carry the listener along with a hurt and passionate vocalist throughout a seamless journey that sadly at some point must come to an end. No Closer to Heaven is a journey, its a story. In the modern day it appears that artists think an album is just a compilation of possibly marketable singles with a common title or that have a similar lyric. In 2015 the art of the album has been lost. In the modern day No Closer to Heaven is an album, and a true modern day punk rock album at that. No Closer to Heaven is an album, and a true modern day punk rock album at that.
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