In celebration of its 10^th birthday, All Time Low returned to Redbull Studios in LA to rerecord their seminal album Nothing Personal. 10 years on, It’s Still Nothing Personal: A Ten-Year Tribute is a heart-warmingly nostalgic reminder of All Time Low’s roots and their infectiously fun pop-punk sound. Some songs have lost their spark, the young imperfections that made them so relatable and special seem to have gone. However, for an All Time Low fan, this album is precious, it’s a fun calling back to a time that seems long gone in the band’s career and I found myself screaming all the lyrics out loud.

All Time Low filmed the entire recording process as a part of the tribute and have released a 45-minute documentary alongside the album, which is available on YouTube. In this, they offer a commentary on the processes of writing and producing the album, defining Nothing Personal as “a turning point for the band.” Songs like ‘Weightless’, ‘Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)’ and ‘Stella’ deliver the justice these iconic All Time Low songs deserve for such a celebration in It’s Still Nothing Personal: A Ten-Year Tribute. They capture what made this album so special: Alex Gaskarth’s Americanised punchy vocals, Jack Barakat’s strong guitar riffs, Rian Dawson’s energetic drumming and Zack Merrick’s gritty basslines. There is an upbeat dynamism to them that prevails, and for me created a massive amount of nostalgia for the original songs.

Yet, not all songs on the album reach this level of fun-filled nostalgia. ‘Lost in Stereo’ falls short of its original recording – the screaming vocals that open it seem clichéd and overall it doesn’t give the same sense of All Time Low’s charmingly imperfect sound. In ‘A Party Song (The Walk of Shame)’ the vocals seem too perky and it loses the grittiness of the original. For me the songs about being young just seem to fall short, which would make sense due to All Time Low’s literal and musical maturing since their release of Nothing Personal.

Vocally, some of the songs on the album benefit from this more mature, meditated sound. The atmospheric sound of the break-up song ‘Too Much’ is maintained, and the underlying guitar riffs remain as per the original, but somehow the more mature vocal elevates the song to a different level. In ‘Sick Little Games’, Alex Gaskarth’s vocal poise delivers the song’s message of being caught up in a web of media culture in a really poignant way that resonates even more 10 years on.

A similar sense is carried in the rerecorded ‘Therapy’ that closes the album. This song has taken on a whole other life within the bands career, it’s a song that is always performed live and is one that stands out among their discography for its emotional fragility. The simple guitar patterns and slowly building drums remain, but Alex Gaskarth approaches the vocals with a more delicate and measured poise. It is by no means the raw, heart-wrenching song that the original is, but it’s still a musically lovely, fragile and tender song that 10 years later remains in the hearts of fans.

Overall, It’s Still Nothing Personal: A Ten-Year Tribute is worth a listening to if you’re a fan of All Time Low purely for the nostalgia. It is by no means musically brilliant, and in places loses the teen driven pop-punk spark and charm of the original. But, 10 years on, All Time Low’s career has blown up since this album, and in coming back to it they offer a heart-warming reflection upon their career. It’s a love letter to their past and to their fans.