"If Fucked Up are no longer a hardcore band, what are they? On their fourth studio album, they continue to move towards a layered, textured modern rock sound - still ferociously loud, but shorn of the brute aggression of hardcore. But there's a problem at the heart of it all, and it's the very thing that defines Fucked Up: their singer, Damian Abraham. He's one of rock's most compelling frontmen - democratic, funny and charismatic - and absolutely crucial to their rise. But while the band behind him have moved away from hardcore's straighthead rama-lama for some years, Abraham's voice still has the guttural bark of the punk singer. And these songs needs something more: if nothing else, they need topline melodies, and Abraham cannot supply them".