Reviews

Yours Today, Mine Tomorrow, the debut CDep from Coral Springs FL’s latest in pop-punk, starts out on the right track. “California” is a great song, save for the fact that no one in the know calls California “Cali” as they do in the chorus. “California” sizzles with a longing, a naivety, and most importantly, a hooky chorus. The rest of the four songs on the five song record don’t bring the same electric emotional connection present in the opener though. The Big Screen’s mixture of older Saves The Day and Drive Thru Records -esque pop sounds get weighted down by an unsettling vagueness, as if they are unwilling to commit to anything more solid, for example, a proper noun.
 
The third track “Pictures of Hope,” sounds like a New Found Glory out take, circa their self-titled record.  Then, when you realize that NFG singer Jordan Pudnik’s brother Daniel fronts The Big Screen, the familial resemblance sits down in the front row of your mind and won’t leave, almost blocking the screen from view. You can’t stop thinking, “And that sounds like NFG, and that too, and that...” Luckily, The Big Screen sounds like NFG before they hit the suck, you know, back in the good old pre-MTV days. Undecided Records has a great band on their hands; given a few more formative years and tours.  Pay attention to them, after some more development, The Big Screen may be co-headlining Skate & Surf while the heartbroken teenagers scour record stores for this EP.