Funeral for a Friend

If this album is a snapshot of the musical Armageddon to come, pack your supplies and get underground now. Funeral for a Friend return with Welcome Home Armageddon, their fifth album, which comes across as an irrational 12-song mix tape, rather than a complete record. "Old Hymns" is a typical skate punk song, all quick drumbeats, racing guitar riffs and sugary-sweet melodies. For fans of '90s-influenced pop punk, it's impossible not to enjoy the throwback sound. But the album quickly shifts from some semblance of melodic hardcore ("Broken Foundation") to radio-ready rock ("Aftertaste") and back again. The endless genre jumping makes for an unsettling listen. Instead of building off each song, Funeral for a Friend are content producing 12 singles and slapping them together. And it's unfortunate, as some of the worthwhile songs ("Spinning Over the Island") get lost in the album's incoherency.