'In With The Out Crowd' is the most recently released album from Less Than Jake. At two years old it isn't exactly 'brand new' any more, but the newest nonetheless and will remain so until they release their eighth studio album later this year. It is my least favourite of all of the albums from the Floridian Ska Punk band Less Than Jake and in truth is not one that I hold in particularly high regard at all. That said, it is by no means a bad album, it's just not a great one.

'Everything Is Overrated' is perhaps a gross overstatement on behalf of the band, but it is certainly true that their 'In With The Out Crowd' is greatly overrated. It is their least impressive album, and this may be in part down to the fact that the horn section are not utilised as much as usual on this album. Their horn section generally gives the band a great injection of life and excitement, but with their horn section for the most part missing entirely in the 'In With The Out Crowd' album; the music just doesn't sound as good. Instead of forefronting the horn section, they have tried to implement guitars where horns would usually be, something I just can't get to grips with when listening to the album. To listen to, it is quite obviously the same band; just a less impressive version.

I really don't enjoy criticising this album; Less Than Jake are one of my favourite bands and it is therefore extremely painful for me not to wholly enjoy this album but the truth is that a lot of it just isn't very good. Many of the tracks are just lacking in the usual wow-factor that the band possess and therefore make for quite disappointing and unenthralling listening. There are of course a couple of promising moments during the albums forty minute duration, but this is just not enough in my opinion. Less Than Jake used to make the most amazing of Ska Punk music, and yet with 'In With The Out Crowd' they don't seem to show that at all. Their generally excellent Ska Punk sound has been replaced here with music where the Ska element has in the main been removed. I would not recommend this album from the band, but would instead insist you listen to some of their earlier albums which in my opinion are a whole lot better than this. 'In With The Out Crowd' does this great band no justice whatsoever and what exactly the band were thinking when they recorded this album I just don't know. It's not a bad album by most bands standards, but having released such fantastic albums in the past Less Than Jake had a lot to live up to with with this release and just didn't quite manage it.