I love Butch Walker, but I’ll try and be objec­tive with this review. I could review many of his albums that I happen to have in my pos­ses­sion, but as this is the newest one out and avail­able for free (or 6 bucks if you want to) I fig­ured I’d try and be cur­rent and edgy and what have you.

Now there are cer­tain artists that sound good on albums but come up short in live shows. There are other artists that rock live per­for­mances like they were born to it, but fail to trans­late this to their record­ings (Live ones aside, obvi­ously). Then there are artists that do both excep­tion­ally well. This is where Butch Walker falls.

What can I say? I’m a fanboy of Aban­doned Pools. No, that’s not true; I’m a fan of talent, and that’s some­thing that Aban­doned Pools has in spades. I will admit that Armed to the Teeth came out in 2005, making this review a little dated, but I feel that Aban­doned Pools is a band (artist, to be more accu­rate) that I’ve had since it came out (please refer to my fanboy comment).