On Sept. 8, early morning passionate fans rushed into stores to purchase the newly released album, Love Drunk, by Boys Like Girls. Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of those crazed fans but instead found my music off of iTunes online.

Their top single, “Love Drunk,” was highly received and even appeared on VH1 top 20 music videos. Some YouTube users claimed that “Love Drunk” seemed too similar to “Somebody Told Me,” by the Killers, but the song does have differences in the mood of the song and the singing. The two songs both have their own unique qualities that make them good songs to rock out to.

But rocking out shouldn’t just be limited to one of the tracks included on the latest album. These eleven songs have new, distinctly different feelings. “She’s Got a Boyfriend Now” and “Heart Heart Heartbreak” are almost as good as “Love Drunk.” “Love Drunk” lends itself to more private rock-out sessions on the stereos. Their fresh songs generally carry a more upbeat tune compared to their last big hit “Thunder,” and if you prefer a moderately slow song, there’s always “Someone Like You” and “Go”.

Throughout the album, most of the songs have been warmly received. There were only a few that were a little iffy. One of them, “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” didn’t hit the right chords. Most of the songs will eventually grow on listeners after awhile.

Boys Like Girls’ new album shows a separate face of the band as they lean towards styles more like those of Fall Out Boy and The Killers than their previous styles. “Love Drunk” is almost like a documentation of their improvement as a band. The songs are jazzed up and totally catchy which causing the need to dance around or burst out singing. This release should quiet complaints about the lack of new songs to listen to.

They will be on tour this fall­­­—you can see them on Oct. 23 at Warfield in San Francisco with fellow artists Cobra Starship and The Maine. But make sure you can sing along with them because this CD is one you don’t want to miss.