Four Year Strong are currently writing their new album so it came as a huge surprise to me when I received what appeared to be the new Four Year Strong album in the mail for review. What? Hopefully you are as confused as I was.



So I put the record on and set to find out what was happening here. Turns out that during the process of putting a song together for the Pop Goes Punk II album, Four Year Strong had a lot of difficulty actually pinpointing one song to cover as they realized there was a shed load of songs from the 90s that they wanted to have fun covering as it reminded them of all the great things from their childhood; airwalks, goosebump books, the movies, JNCO jeans and everything else in between. This is where "Explains It All" comes in. It is an 11 track covers album including all the songs that Four Year Strong grew up on and loved during their childhood. Imagine it as a tool to get into the minds of the Four Year Strong boys during their childhoods and to understand the influences behind the band.



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