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Sticks and Stones represents a lot of growth for New Found Glory, but also has a yearning, youthful nostalgia that was a key part of early 2000's pop punk and emo.
From referencing a popular children’s rhyme with the title, to the album artwork, which shows two kids wrestling in the grass, this album evokes feelings of childhood from the minute you hold it in your hand. Whether you prefer the scrappier Nothing Gold Can Stay, the no-frills self-titled, the heavier Catalyst, or the softer Coming Home, it’s hard to deny that Sticks and Stones hits a sweet spot that falls neatly between all of the albums from that first era of the band’s career.
It touches on a little bit of everything that the band is capable of, it helped define the new wave of pop punk that took over in the early 2000s, and it cemented New Found Glory as one of the genre’s flagship bands.
There’s a reason that two of the biggest pop punk bands around were named after song titles and lyrics from this album (The Story So Far and All Time Low, respectively); pop punk was a crowded place in 2002, and with Sticks and Stones, New Found Glory steered the genre towards places it might’ve otherwise never gone.