Love Drunk (2009)

As their hilariously straightforward band name suggests, Boston's Boys Like Girls have no use for nuance. They've broken out of the pop-punk underground not by illuminating the dark corners of young-person romance but by crafting songs that make the rituals of 
 teenhood feel like scenes in a Zac Efron movie. Three years after their hit debut, they're a little older but just as emphatic: ''I'm 23 and invincible!'' crows frontman Martin Johnson on ''She's Got a 
 Boyfriend Now,'' one of the sprightlier numbers on the uniformly zippy 
 Love Drunk. The world is these guys' post-prom party. B

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