Four Year Strong Rip a “How’s Your Father?” with New Screamer ‘Daddy Of Mine’
15 years ago, Massachusetts’ popcore luminaries Four Year Strong released a charming covers album entitled Explains It All that remarkably reinterpreted songs from artists such as: Alanis Morissette, Third Eye Blind, Nirvana and Everclear. The bearded gentlemen even incorporated an “April Fools Joke” in regards to the project proclaiming they had retired from their electrifying easycore identity and were becoming a covers band full-time.In 2024, the quartet are thankfully still energising pop-punk and hardcore enthusiasts worldwide with their adored formula and this April has brought out a truly “Dad’s Bod” heavy metallic hardcore rocker in ‘daddy of mine’.Whether this is a reference to Everclear’s 1997 smash hit ‘Father Of Mine’ remains to be seen. However, prepare yourselves for this two-and-a-half-minute belter as it will instigate a Brain Pain that devotees will (d)admire immeasurably.The single stirs up comparisons to Ohio’s Beartooth, Orange County’s Stick To Your Guns and even Buffalo’s Every Time I Die more than Florida’s New Found Glory. Do not be fooled though, this isn’t a getaway from their pop-punk roots; this is GREAT WAY to embrace their hardcore heroics.
For the first 30 seconds, the listeners could easily be convinced that this track is a B-side from ETID’s From Parts Unknown LP – it harnesses that incredible intensity. Then when the chorus glides into the insanity, the anthem properly initiates: “Love the way you turn me black and blue” is sung so authentically, it is instantaneously engrained on the witnesses’ brains. To be frank, it delightfully and gratefully, does not want to leave.
The song follows the heavy verse/melodic chorus structure until the halfway point, this is where a NFG meets STYG hybrid beatdown enforces the beloved bounce effect practically any enthusiast adores about the previously stated genres. After 20 seconds of this moshpit provoking paradise, the single becomes amazingly more aggressive. The tempo rises with thunderous drumming, a static shout-along including the lyrics: “If you never get it off your chest” provokes the imagery of microphone grabbing and mosh-ninjas parading their two-step talents. The lead up then explodes, unleashing the type of dissonant breakdown that Jordan Buckley and Andy Williams refined together so well for over 20 years.“Not again, not again, NOT AGAIN!”End.It is ironic that in all likelihood, many will want to hear the track again, again, AGAIN!Words by WillOakeshott@TeenWolfWill
Stream 'daddy of mine' here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2UJCKW6ILc&t=1s
