ROUND THREE FIGHT - FORGET WHAT YOU'VE HEARD, TRUST WHAT YOU KNOW published August 5, 2006, The Owl Mag

Round Three Fight's Forget What You've Heard, Trust What You Know follows all the mandatory pop punk rules: sufficient energy, vocals with a boy-ish charm, singable choruses, harmonies in the right places, subject matter light, sugary, rooted in teen angst. Think of blink-182 when they weren't cracking dirty jokes and just make them a little more forlorn.

Whether you will like this album really depends on whether or not the above mentioned criteria are what get you going. They fit the mold perfectly but somehow fail to carve their own niche within the genre. With a sea of bands out there making the same kinds of music, it is an arduous challenge to stick out. After a few tracks of this album, you might be begging for a scream or a minor chord somewhere in there just to mix it up a bit.