Sugary, sweet, but fired up with teenage turbulence, Saves the Day's songs follow the pop-punk formula and they work. The title track is a bouncy, powerhouse of loud guitars and crunchy rhythms while the vocalist takes the lyrics and tries to fight his demons through the anger he excretes. This continues throughout the album, especially on tracks like "Banned from the Back Porch," "The Vast Spoils of America (From the Badlands Through the Ocean)", and "You Vandal".
Let's be honest. Pop-punk bands are a dime-a-dozen. Fuck, bands are a dime-a-dozen and everybody is doing what everybody else is doing. So, to excel in anything musical this day and age is quite hard and takes a lot of hard work, luck, and talent. Though they're not a band anyone is going to call musical geniuses, Saves the Day's pop-punk is fresh and invigorating, hooking you from start to finish and giving you a good ride along the way. They're good at what they do and you'll really enjoy them for that. I'll give it a B+.