Critics have never been fond of Simple Plan. Not at all. For example on the music server AbsolutePunk, the reviewes on Simple Plan’s third album were really bad. “Simple Plan” got only 24% with reviewers comments like: “As Bouvier begs and pleads for the subject of the song to stay and croons, “You know it’s not the end,” the listener begins to wish it was,” and as such this album has been labeled as “by far their worst effort”.
Although, with the coming of the 4th Simple Plan’s studio album Get Your Heart On! (that is being released on June 21st), it seems like something has changed severely. The first review (by Joe DeAndrea on AbsolutePunk) of the yet un-released new Simple Plan record has given it 74% and marked it as “the best album of their career, and one of the best in the genre thus far in 2011!”
When it comes to the songs, according to DeAndrea K’Naan’s collaboration on Simple Plan’s “Summer Paradise” sounds like “a song that Plain White T’s wish they could write..”, “You Suck At Love” is considered to be “the biggest hook the band has ever written” and the slowest tracks like Astronaut and Gone Too Soon are also apparently very catchy and strong.
A lot of people have been confronting the upcoming All Time Low’s record (that by the way includes Time Bomb, written by SP – and on the other hand, Alex (ATL) sings on the new SP record): and it seems like Simple Plan’s Get Your Heart On! could actually be a winner of this little competition. Although Dirty Work (All Time Low) and Get Your Heart On! (Simple Plan) both got 74% in their AbsolutePunk’s reviews, the “lasting value” of Simple Plan’s record is thought to be much higher (SP: 9,5/10 – ATL: 6,5/10).
Even though this review has been pretty harsh at Simple Plan at times: e.g. their lyrics are still considered to be absolutely “ridiculous”; he overall image of Simple Plan’s new album from DeAndrea ‘s point of view looks very promising. Even fans, who were already lucky enough to hear most of the songs from it say their greatest comeback: with music that indicated a return to their roots, but to the next level: witty, fun and real.
