Philadelphia-based emo pop act
Modern Baseball
completed their second album,
You're Gonna Miss It All
, while still relatively wet behind the ears. Just three years into their existence, the band had already cultivated an infectiously catchy sound, drawing on high-energy melodic punk influences like
Motion City Soundtrack
and
Tokyo Police Club
while painting lyrical pictures with the same vulnerable honesty of older veterans of the emo world like the
Promise Ring
or
the Weakerthans
. The peppy and ceaselessly upbeat tunes that make up the album rush by in a stream of self-aware lyrics about uncertain romantic relationships, disappointment, and the more bitter side of unrequited love, on the especially caustic "Your Graduation." ~ Fred Thomas