All Time Low Coffee Shop Soundtrack Video

Pop punk is brilliant sometimes. Really, it is. That`s not to say that it isn`t also horrendous. The idea of it of course, is that when the mood is right and the ideas are right, and the band is right, there is nothing in the world more comforting than a little pop punk. For Hopeless Records boys, All Time Low, all the proper conditions were in order for an absolutely solid seven song EP. They are from a town called Cockeysville Maryland although their Myspace page will tell you it`s Timonium (I had to hunt them down individually to find out this information). They are currently #1 on the Purevolume charts, ahead of Billy Talent, Panic! At The Disco, Underoath and AFI. They`re commanding the Ernie Ball Stage at Warped Tour and have achieve over 500,000 plays on their Myspace page. Interested? So am I.

Let`s be honest; what is summertime without beer and pop punk? Quite obviously influenced by bands like Blink 182 and New Found Glory, this band happens to be nothing special while at the same time being everything special about an entire genre of music that has become the face of every joke and the secret obsession of everyone now in their twenties who saw Blink 182 half a dozen times. That was your music; the kind you listened to in your car with your best friend or alone in your bedroom while posting the lyrics on your Livejournal. All Time Low is young, energetic and positive. They have the mindset of a bunch of eighteen year old kids because they are a bunch of eighteen year old kids and every teenager who missed out on pop punk in the late 90`s is going to eat that up like it`s vanilla ice cream (with rainbow sprinkles, of course).

"Coffee Shop Soundtrack" is more of a pool party soundtrack, with airy power chords and lyrics like "Tonight is alive with the promise of a street fight/There`s money on the table that says your cheap-shots won`t be able to break bones/I`ve yet to break a sweat." Another example of the lyrics you`ll find here is "Lipstick has a way of leaving more than just a mark on my sheets/Coloring my senses cherry red; at least for this week," on "The Girl`s A Straight-Up Hustler." Not exactly riveting, I know, but fused with catchy melodies, they become delicious.

Of course, each of these seven songs could have been written by a thousand other bands. It just so happens that this band wrote the right songs at the right time and delivered it to the right sort of people who looked at it in the right way. Part of the record was recorded in Producer, Paul Leavitt`s basement in Maryland. Keeping it DIY, their home state is quite obviously smitten with their music, which will more than likely prove to be an explosion by the time the band delivers a full length. Using youth to their advantage, All Time Low has the potential to do great things, but watch out grown-ups, All Time Low is for kids!

You can check out All Time Low - Coffee Shop Soundtrack video above!

-- Katie Ellsweig