Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne released her seventh studio album, “Love Sux” on Feb. 25, featuring 12 songs centering around the theme of love and heartache. The title is exactly what the album is about: how much love sucks.

Before releasing the full album, Lavigne released singles “Love It When You Hate Me” and “Bite Me” on Jan. 14 and fans could see that the pop-punk queen that really brought the genre alive in 2002 is back. 

“Love Sux” was released under Travis Barker’s record label, DTA Records, and is her first album since 2019. She brought high energy throughout the album.

Lavigne is most popularly known for her songs “Sk8tr Boi” and “Complicated,” both off of her 2002 debut album “Let Go” and “Girlfriend” from her 2007 album, “The Best Damn Thing.” “Love Sux” is made for the fans that missed the sounds of both of these albums from the early 2000s. 

“Love Sux” features other popular artists such as Machine Gun Kelly on “Bois Lie,” Blackbear on “Love It When You Hate Me” and blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on “All I Wanted.”

This album hits a nostalgic feeling due to Lavigne returning back to her pop-punk early 2000s roots after trying to change her sound throughout her career, especially on her 2019 album, “Head Above Water,” which was filled with slower songs. 

The album starts off strong with “Cannonball” in which she sings, “You did me wrong and so now this is what you get, I hope that when you see my face it starts to make you feel a little sick

I’m taking back, yeah, every single word I said. I bet you’re cryin’ all alone every night inside of your bed.” 

The seventh song on the album, “Avalanche,” slows down a lot compared to the other 11 upbeat songs. 

Lavigne is vulnerable in “Avalanche” telling listeners how not OK she is and that every time she says she’s fine, she’s lying. This is a powerful song that a lot of people will be able to connect to on a deep, emotional level. 

The album ends with an under two-minute song called “Break Of A Heartache,” which ties in the theme of every song on the album of hating her ex, in which she tells him that she won’t give him another chance because she doesn’t want to go through another breakup.

“Love Sux” showcases Lavigne’s grown-up vocals now that she is 37, but encompasses the pop-punk style of music she sang at just 17. 

Merchandise including the CD and cassette tape for “Love Sux” can be purchased on her website. Click here to listen to the album on Spotify and feel that early-to-mid-2000s nostalgia.