text: Giving the album a C + rating , Marc Weingarten of Entertainment Weekly said the album is filled with `` protest anthems that lean closer to the burnished angst of such bands as New Found Glory and Fall Out Boy than the genuine outrage of brainy Green Day '' and songs that are `` peppy but pretty empty , power-chord downers with little bark or bite . ''
simplified: Giving the album a C + review , Marc Weingarten of Entertainment Weekly says the album is filled with `` protest anthems that lean closer to the burnished angst of such bands as New Found Glory and Fall Out Boy than the genuine outrage of brainy Green Day '' and songs that are `` peppy but pretty empty , power-chord downers with little bark or bite . ''