Genres: Alternative Released: Jun 09, 2009 2009 Fueled By Ramen, LLC, for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved Off the Deep End reveals a good-time gang keeping the teen-beat bubblegum sound alive. Not that they’re a throwback to the Bay City Rollers, but the Fairfax, Virginia quartet’s catchy contemporary guitar-pop boasts heavily barbed hooks baited with sentiment sweeter than gummy worms. “Permanent Heartbreak” opens like an endearingly maudlin diary entry set to new wave- inspired power pop with a heavily auto-tuned singalong chorus. Although the title of “Suicide Sunday” hints at a heavy topic, the driving tune is actually an upbeat standout musing on loneliness and the kind of youthful ADD boredom compounded by not having a girlfriend to hang out with. Singer Andrew Goldstein’s breathy voice gets put to good use on “Stuttering,” a rocking insta-hit fueled by Cheap Trick-inspired melodies and the burning urgency of adolescent libido. The curiously titled “How I Met Your Mother” flirts with electro-pop, but of course no teenage album would be complete without a few swooning power ballads. The slow-dance friendly “She’s Finding Me Out” as well as the folkish “Can’t Take That Away” both deliver the goods.