I honestly expected an even more drastic change from Sing It Loud's debut record, Come Around to Everything Collide. Yes, the change is evident, but they're still the same band. Everything Collide was released 5/11/10 and all though they weren't on this year's Warped Tour, they just finished up a tour with Every Avenue, The Secret Handshake, and There For Tomorrow. I have absolutely no complaints about this record and there's no tracks that I would bother skipping. Sing It Loud have already released two singles off of Everything Collide ("Sugar Sweet" and "Here With You"). Evan Lucy of AP Mag wrote a review saying they "have thankfully ditched the irritating keyboards and cookie-cutter choruses for Southern-fried guitar riffs and plenty of spirited tambourine." I agree that their music has matured, but did you have to completely rip on Come Around before giving them a compliment? There were other reviews that I came across that were like this and... I simply don't get it. I personally like Come Around, but have to even admit that Everything Collide takes it to the next level. With that said, Sing It Loud are even more unbearably underrated. "Letting Go" rocks the Yellowcard violin better than Yellowcard themselves (alright, that's kind of a biased statement). "I Can't" may not be the best or the most complex song off of the record, but the lyrics say it better than I could ever describe it: "I can't, I can't keep myself from singing..." (Fuck you lyric sites that say the lyrics are "I can't keep myself from SAYING"). It's a little difficult for me to pick a favorite song, but it would probably have to be "Wonder Why." Anyone who knows Sing It Loud's history on how they got started as a band, knows why it's easy for them to say "So, forgive your enemies and never forget their names, I hope you don't try to run away, because it never really helps anyway."
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