Taking Back Sunday's latest album Happiness Is, the follow-up to their 2011 self-titled release, is slated for release on March 18. Recorded last summer, the 11 track album was produced by Mike Sapone (Brand New, Public Enemy) and Marc Jacob Hudson.
Happiness Is is available for preorder from Hopeless Records. The band released a video of the studio version of "Flicker, Fade", the first single from the album, here.
Taking Back Sunday accidentally ended up being one of the bands that spearheaded the emo movement that bled into the mainstream in the early noughties, a label that the band aren't entirely comfortable with. More recently, frontman Adam Lazzara got into an argument with the organisers of an LA club night that catered to the nostalgic whims of former emo … Read more
Taking Back Sunday were once the face of the new alternative underground movement often labeled as “emo” but over the last few years they seemed to have lost their footing. After losing pivotal member in Fred Mascherino and releasing the uninspired New Again, an album that met a negative critical reception, many fans including myself gave up on the band … Read more
When I started my own zine as a sophomore in highschool (I am now a freshman in college), Victory would send me all their releases to review. Honestly, I stopped reviewing Victory releases because I was tired of making fun of every record I had to review. Although 96% of Victory releases are awful, sometimes, between Freya, Snowdogs, Atreyu, Catch … Read more
Listening to Taking Back Sunday as an emo kid in 2006 was like hooking the embodiment of your misplaced rage into your veins. If you didn't roar the chorus of "MakeDamnSure" in your bedroom while trying to aggressively apply kohl eyeliner then were you ever really an emo kid? But … Read more
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