Chad Gilbert, formerly of New Found Glory and Shai Hulud, has recently started releasing music under the name What’s Eating Gilbert in which he focuses on writing songs that sound like “Roy Orbison or Buddy Holly if either of those artists grew up playing punk rock.” The latest two song EP, The Nashville Sessions, is about to be released by Paper + Plastic Records on Tuesday June 19th, which you can preorder and stream here.

The two songs Babe and Lonely Road are both decent pop songs, though Lonely Road is far superior, with it’s cute 50’s charm and female background harmonies. Overall, the mix of Pop-punk and 50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and Doo-Wop makes an interesting listen. So far What’s Eating Gilbert has released three EP’s, this included, but it will be interesting to see a full-length album of this kind of material.