Bowling For Soup
Fishing For Woos
Brand-O Records

US pop-punk dorks Bowling For Soup are one of those bands who, like clockwork, release album after album without so much as a slight change in the formula. They don’t get any critical acclaim yet the kids lap up their music with their UK tours always a complete sell-out so they must be doing something right.

Fishing For Woos is, unsurprisingly, more of the same goofy poppy punk rock so, if you’ve liked anything the band throughout the course of their career, this album won’t be too much of a shock. Funny and bouncy, sounds like Girls In America and Smiley Face (It’s All Good) are standard Bowling For Soup fodder. The lyrics are just the right side of stupid (and they all rhyme), the guitars rock and the hooks are memorable enough to ensure that everyone from your five year old brother to your eighty year old Gran will be singing along to. Of course, Fishing For Woos isn’t all about getting naked, boobs, girls and peanut butter, the touching Turbulence shows a more sensitive side to the band although the whole sensitive guy thing gets kicked into touch quickly by the fantastic Friends Chicks Guitars which takes 80s hair metal and gives it a punk rock kick up the ass.

Fishing For Woos is another enjoyable Bowling For Soup album. It’s not a great one. It’s not a bad one either, simply because the band don’t do good or bad albums. The production line at Bowling For Soup HQ just reliably keeps on churning out nuggets of pop punk that you’ll be singing to before you know it while the band prepare for another fun filled tour later this year. In times when the world needs a chuckle, you can always rely on Bowling For Soup and, on that note, we give Fishing For Woos a big Smiley Face.

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Review by Jenny Taylor