Album Review: Let Me Run - Broken Strings EP

TThe addition of a new front man is always a sure fire way to mark with a break from your past and New Jersey’s Let Me Run make an adequate attempt at reinvention here. Improving upon 2009’s 'Meet Me At the Bottom', Let Me Run have crafted an EP that should appeal to fans from both sides of the pop-punk dichotomy. Though the EP begins in rather bland fashion with CSJ, things improve from there.

'Brocomotive' is a terribly monikered, but musically pulsating song that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Swellers release, though Dan Maxwell impressively puts his stamp on the song, showing off an impressive set of pipes in the process. If Kris Roe had chained smoked for all his life and listened exclusively to The Get Up Kids you can get a rough feel for Maxwell’s vocal style.