New Found Glory Releases New Album ‘Listen Up!’
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“They’re more introspective and vulnerable now, and the angst that once spoke to their teenage audience has evolved into reflections on personal growth that will resonate with now-grown millennials…Their most recent endeavor is the result of blood, sweat, and tears, but moreover, a detailed chronology of humanity replacing spectacle. That’s where the magic lives.” – New Noise Magazine
“Listen Up! is a real return to form for New Found Glory. Born in the midst of one of their most challenging times, it feels like all of their collective joy and pain of the last few years has been channelled into creating a powerful, optimistic, highly inspired record.” – The AU Review, 5/5
“Listen Up! is as catchy as it gets, it is wall to wall full of live anthems. Pick a song and it could be the band’s next single. It could be the song that opens or closes a show, and it could be the song that is sung as loudly from the crowd as from Jordan for years to come. This is, as they say, an instant classic.” – Everblack Media
“With an album full of anthems, and a catalogue overflowing with classics, they can expect to bring generations together with this project…the high energy amongst recollective lyrics provide an uplifted soundtrack to be resilient in tough moments. As a band, they face the future together and welcome their audience to partake too.” – Amnplify
“This is an album about staying present, about listening closely to the people around you and the moments you are living through. New Found Glory are not looking backward with regret or forward with fear. Instead, they stand firmly in the now, inviting their audience to do the same.” – The Alternative Journal
“It’s optimistic. It’s reflective, and unmistakably shaped by the hardships the band have faced in recent years…The instrumentals are airtight and the guys still know exactly how to construct a flawless pop punk foundation.” – Sense Music Media
“…a record that trades quiet reckoning for loud resilience, proving that hope can still arrive with distortion and a circle pit.” – Waxx Lyrical
“Fans who cut their teeth on ‘Sticks and Stones’ and ‘Catalyst’ will hear the lineage in the guitar shapes and tempo choices, but this isn’t cosplay nostalgia; it’s NFG sharpening familiar tools for a new chapter.” – Good Call Live
Coral Springs, FL – Pop punk mainstays New Found Glory are back with Listen Up!, the band’s first full-length album in nearly 6 years. A collection of songs about resilience and hope, Listen Up! is out now via Pure Noise Records and features recent releases Beer and Blood Stains, Treat Yourself andLaugh It Off, as well as latest single A Love Song.
New Found Glory will be joining Yellowcard on the newly extended The Up Up Down Down Tour in North America, along with special guests Plain White T’s. The 27-stop tour kicks off May 6th in Atlanta, with dates to follow in Chicago, Denver, Nashville, New York, and more before wrapping on June 20th in Springfield.
Prior to the tour, fans in Indonesia can catch the band on May 3rd at Hammersonic 2026. They’ll also be performing at this year’s Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival, taking place in Columbus from May 14th-17th. New Found Glory were also recently announced as part of the lineup for this year’s Vans Warped Tour, and will perform at the Festival in Mexico City in September and Orlando in November.
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About New Found Glory:
It’s been decades since New Found Glory’s likeness was chiseled onto pop-punk’s Mount Rushmore, but as the quartet, formed in Coral Springs, Florida, in 1997, approach their landmark 30th anniversary, they still have a lot to say.
“We wanted to make something that really focused on how lucky we are,” guitarist Chad Gilbert explains of LISTEN UP!, NFG’s 11th studio album and first release for Pure Noise Records. “We’ve all gone through serious stuff in our lives, and I think the lyrics on this record are more meaningful and purposeful than ever. It’s a positive outlet that hopefully keeps people going.”
The album’s spirit is indeed a testament to resilience, shaped not only by Gilbert’s ongoing battle with an aggressive metastatic cancer but also the ever-evolving dynamic between him and his bandmates – vocalist Jordan Pundik, bassist Ian Grushka and drummer Cyrus Bolooki – as they continue to push each other creatively. It’s the same full-hearted sentiment that colored their 2023 acoustic EP, Make The Most Of It, here delivered in three-minute bursts of the band’s trademark pop-punk sound: the shiny melodies that launched them onto TRL in the early 2000s, the ghosts of the tight-knit punk and hardcore scenes they came up in as teenagers.
That kinetic energy informed Listen Up! from its earliest stages of the writing process, with Bolooki and Grushka traveling to Gilbert’s Nashville-area home to flesh out the songs the guitarist had been crafting. Sitting face to face with their instruments, the three fell into a rhythm of workshopping and arranging together, leaning into a riff-first mentality that harkened back to iconic songs like My Friends Over You and All Downhill From Here in what Bolooki calls a musical return to form.
At this stage in their decorated career, New Found Glory’s goals are straightforward: keep inspiring the next generation of artists and continue writing songs that help their audience – and themselves – find strength, courage, and joy. The band has come a long way from their humble South Florida beginnings, as detailed on the Listen Up! standout Beer And Blood Stains, a nostalgic riff-factory detailing the band’s early battle scars at local clubs, where danger meant more than catching a stray elbow in the swirl of a circle pit. “Looking back, was it fun or crime?” Pundik muses on the track before elevating the album’s simple-yet-profound mission statement: “It’s good to be alive
