Like The Ataris circa ‘So Long Astoria‘ and The All American Rejects at their poppiest and most hooky? Then be prepared to lap up Verona Grove with the excitement of a cat which hasn’t had milk for a week. As generic as pretty much every other band in the genre, Verona Grove are another US threesome which concentrate on writing melodic pop-rock songs with huge choruses.
This album is 11 tracks of enjoyable pop-rock. At times the band flick between the more poppier end of the scale, coming across like a less boyband Simple Plan, while at others they sound a little more mature. Track 3, for instance, sounds very much like The Ataris at their most radio-friendly. It’s this mix, while not wholly original and inovative, which keeps ‘The Story Thought Over’ an interesting listen.
This 11-track album is being co-released by Universal so it’s quite likely we will be hearing a lot more from Verona Grove in the future. And while their style has been done to death – and then some – this is an enjoyable summer’s release and one I’ll probably go back to in the future.