Never judge an album by its band’s appearance. Every so often, however, their appeal coincides.

Bowling For Soup are getting old, but they’re in a swimming pool, obese and tattooed, on their album art, and they’re still producing tinny punk-pop songs for nine year old boys to rebel to. Sorry for Partyin’ deals with that middle age crisis: to party on or to turn all suburban and pay the bills? Sometimes it’s just downright crass. BFF juggles the desperation to remain straight with the expression of affection for a friend. “I’m trying to say I love you in a heterosexual way.”  Thanks for the clarification.

There’s irony here, but never quite enough. Still, Sorry for Partyin’ is worst when it attempts sentimentality, usually in regards to a hot ass jiggling out of the door.  “The memories stay forever,” sings Jaret Reddick on ‘Me With No You’, “like tattoos.” Ouch.