YELLOWCARD - Yellowcard 2xLP (Grey Vinyl)

Label: Hopeless

With the exception of a 2 year hiatus, Los Angeles based Floridian quartet have been doing their thing for about 20 years now. Yellowcard is the group’s 10th studio album and, late in June, the band announced that it would be the ultimate Yellowcard album. That’s ultimate, as in final. After completing their tour in support of the album – scheduled to conclude in early 2017 – Yellowcard are calling it a day.

For their last hurrah, Yellowcard demonstrate that they have spent the 2 decades of their career honing their unique pop-punk sound – unique for the inclusion of violin, courtesy of founding member Sean Mackin – and song-writing skills. Featuring all the sounds and structures that one expects from a pop-punk outfit, Yellowcard is a polished album with the distorted guitar – lush with harmonic content.

'Yellowcard' will stand as a solid summation of all Yellowcard have learnt and achieved over their 20 years as a band.