

The excitable lads in Neck Deep hail from Wales, but you wouldn't know it from listening to the Mountain Dew-soaked riffs of "Gold Steps" or the sky-high wails of "Happy Judgement Day." Having grown up on a steady diet of Green Day and A Day to Remember, they show such a natural facility for jittery angst and wailing power chords on "Growing Pains" that one might think they grew up going to Warped Tour. As devout students of ‘00s-era pop-punk, Neck Deep know that all punks must eventually grow up, with the band tackling complex melodies (and even more complex feelings) on songs like "Crushing Grief (No Remedy).”