Horrible Things, from Champaign, Illinois, isn’t your typical pop-punk band. If this is the first you are hearing of the band, keep in mind that the band only consists of one member and his name is Tim Reynolds. That’s right. He played all of the instruments and sang lead in all ten tracks of Horrible Things’ second release Everybody Else.

Again, Horrible Things is self-described as a pop-punk band, but I would have to call attention to the obvious garage rock edge infused into the band’s sound on this record. You can really hear that influence in songs like “A Million Times” and “Laundry Detergent” where the guitars are blaring with distortion and the drums are really slammed hard.

There are some hints of emo influence on this record as well. You can hear it in Tim Reynolds’s voice at certain points during the album, which sounds like a much more tolerable version of Tom Delonge’s voice before the first Blink-182 break up. There are especially hints of the emo influence in the very last song of the album called “One of Them.” Even though this is the slowest song on the record, Tim still decided to keep the instruments at full blast for the most part. He sings in a much more shrill voice, but with a much darker overtone to it. On top of that, he sings self-deprecating lyrics like “I always felt like I was one of them/ I was treated like one of them/ Just a person in the background.”

Everybody Else is a solid record. After a first listen this album seemed like a very straightforward pop punk album. But after a second and third listen you realize that there is really more than meets the eye (or ear in this case). You can tell in certain places that Tim Reynolds does need to tighten up his vocal abilities and maybe work on the lyrics a little bit, but chances are those small flaws won’t make or break whether you like this record or not.