Consumer Guide Album

The Front Bottoms: Back on Top [Fueled by Ramen, 2015]
On an album unified by the megatheme we'll-break-up-we'll-break-up-not, be grateful the music keeps improving as Brian Sella applies his pitch-poor voice to marginally catchier variations on the theme. A propitious omen is that the one that repeats "You can tie me up but don't tie me down" is called "Ginger" in honor of the dog he rescued--an omen that "2YL" soon putsmore flesh on. Only then the chorus switches into "Love of my life, gone forever." And in the closer someone dies, although not Sella. B+