Lyricist: Jeremy McKinnon.

A Day to Remember: Jeremy McKinnon (vocals); Neil Westfall, Tom Denney (guitar); Joshua Woodard (bass guitar); Alex Shellnutt (drums).

Personnel: Mike Hranica, Sierra Kusterbeck, Vincent Bennett (vocals); Kevin Skaff (guitar); Dave Guynn (harmonica).

Audio Mixer: Adam Dutkiewicz.

Audio Remasterer: Alan Douches.

Recording information: The Wade Studio, Ocala, FL.

Photographer: Phill Mamula.

A Day to Remember plays post-hardcore with a distinctly pop-punk melodic stamp. They're as much influenced by Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords bands as they are by punishingly rhythmic metalcore acts. Their third album, HOMESICK, is frequently soaring and anthemic, the choruses on songs like "NJ Legion Iced Tea" and "Have Faith In Me" sticking in the head almost immediately. They haven't abandoned roaring hardcore brawn, however, as steamroller tracks "Mr. Highway's Thinking About the End" and "Holdin' It Down for the Underground" amply display. The songs are balanced nicely, and the ratio of sweet and sour is just about right.

Ocala, FL-based post-hardcore outfit A Day to Remember's third full-length offering opens with the blistering "The Downfall of Us All," a hugely melodic slice of metal-infused punk-pop bliss that's sure to land a second life in countless montages on MTV reality shows and 30-second cola commercials. What follows is a collection of perfectly executed and fairly standard clean vocal post-hardcore emo-pop that both revels in and illuminates the limitations of the genre. While lead singer Jeremy McKinnon fulfills his duty as a clean/screamo switch-hitter throughout Homesick, the omnipresent group vocals provide the thread from which the album was designed. A Day to Remember do their best to juggle both worlds on the anthemic "Have Faith in Me," and the closing "If It Means a Lot to You" provides fans with a fine Bic lighter/cell phone light moment. ~ James Christopher Monger

Ocala, FL-based post-hardcore outfit A Day to Remember's third full-length offering opens with the blistering "The Downfall of Us All," a hugely melodic slice of metal-infused punk-pop bliss that's sure to land a second life in countless montages on MTV reality shows and 30-second cola commercials. What follows is a collection of perfectly executed and fairly standard clean vocal post-hardcore emo-pop that both revels in and illuminates the limitations of the genre. While lead singer Jeremy McKinnon fulfills his duty as a clean/screamo switch-hitter throughout Homesick, the incessant group vocals provide the thread from which the album was designed. Exciting at first, the constant "yeahs" and "heys" eventually dissolve into the waves of distortion mid-album, resulting in the audio equivalent of an energy drink crash. The band does its best to juggle both worlds on the pretty, simplistic, and anthemic "Have Faith in Me," and closer "If It Means a Lot to You" provides fans with a fine Bic lighter/cell phone light moment, but there's just not enough here to separate it from the deafening, ultimately forgettable, over-compressed slabs of twentysomething angst that came before it. ~ James Christopher Monger

Alternative Press (p.133) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "McKinnon's inner turmoil is matched only by the music, which takes ADTR's signature blend of pop-punk and brutal hardcore to an entirely new and altogether mind-blowing level..."