Goldfinger - The Knife review: Pop-punkers past their sell-by date

They never have found an audience on this side of the Atlantic, and it doesn’t look like that will change with Goldfinger’s seventh album.

The LA pop-punk band formed in 1994, and the only original member is frontman John Feldmann, who has recruited players from other outfits (including Travis Barker of Blink-182 on drums) for this outmoded collection. At best, Get What I Need and Don't Let Me Go are passable, nifty infusions of ska with a breezy, upbeat bombast, while Barker's breakneck drumming on A Million Miles is impressive. At worst, Feldmann's juvenile lyrics, as heard on the awful Orthodonist Girl, are cringeworthy.

For fans clinging to the glory days of Bowling for Soup and Sum 41. goldfingermusic.com