It feels like Simple Plan’s latest instalment, ‘Taking One For The Team’, is a comeback album of sorts, even though they’ve been steadily cracking on without the obstruction of a hiatus since their inception. Having said that, there’s no greater level of expectation prescribed. You don’t go into a Simple Plan album expecting anything more than a Simple Plan album.
‘Taking One For The Team’ certainly doesn’t profess to be anything it’s not: unashamedly catchy pop melodies on tracks like ‘Boom!’ or ‘Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching’ lie atop innocent guitar lines and preach high school confrontation in lines like “everything sucks because you’re not around”.
