Album Review: Northbound – Soul Kiss

Jonathon Fraser, who has been known as Northbound since 2012, will be releasing his debut full length today, November 22nd, via Smartpunk Records. What originally started out as a solo acoustic endeavour has steadily grown into the full band project that has delivered “Soul Kiss“. From the opening chords of ‘Very Long List‘ it is immediately apparent that “Soul Kiss” is a pop punk album, everything on this ten track release that ticks all the expected boxes in a perfunctory and somewhat predictable manner. That is not to say that “Soul Kiss” is in anyway a bad album, if you are a lover of all the well known names on the pop punk scene, from The Front Bottoms and The Dangerous Summer to all the usual and well known suspects who you really don’...