[1.5/5]
Formerly treading the blatant passageway between Yellowcard and Silverstein, A Thorn For Every Heart manage to shake off their growing pains only to churn out a sophomorically sophomore full-length full of overproduced mall-emo. It'd be generous to say half-assed meta lines like "When the radio plays this song/I hope you can't help but sing along" and patently whiny ballads like "You're The One" come off a tad tedious. Trite teen angst declarations ("We are worthless, we are numb/We are reckless, we are young") litter the pavement like street team postcards at the end of a Warped Tour stop. Meanwhile, frontman Kelvin Cruz's soft voice tends to overstep the bounds of "wispy" and stumble right into "annoying" (see: "Worthless"), crippling the few times momentum manages to build. Looking for a one-word summary of It's Hard To Move You? The song title in the previous sentence nails it. (INTERSCOPE) Brian Shultz
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