Taking Back Sunday have announced they’re set to release their new album ‘Tidal Wave’ on September 16th via Hopeless Records.
Tidal Wave, Taking Back Sunday's seventh album, was recorded in Michigan and Charlotte, North Carolina (where Lazzara and guitarist John Nolan reside). Lazzara adds that the album was written in between tours during the Happiness Is cycle, the band's latest release from 2014.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, frontman Adam Lazzara explains, “Look, in my mind every album anyone’s ever written is an emo album because there’s a lot of emotion that goes into all of that. You can’t listen to ‘Hey Jude’ and tell me that’s not an emo song. I don’t like being pigeonholed because I think there’s more to it than that. I think this record highlights that very well, so no I wouldn’t consider it an emo record in the traditional sense of the word.”
“‘Tidal Wave’ is a bit of a departure but I don’t think its coming out of left field,” he continues. “We realise anything we do is going to sound like Taking Back Sunday"'
With our first records, we’re writing from the perspective of 17, 18-year-old kids and now it’s like as you grow older the blinders get pulled back and you have a different way of looking at the world around you," Lazzara adds.
**Current Members**
John Nolan – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (1999–2003; 2010–present)
Eddie Reyes – rhythm guitar (1999–present)
Adam Lazzara – lead vocals (2001–present); bass guitar, vocals (2001)
Mark O'Connell – drums, percussion (2001–present)
Shaun Cooper – bass guitar (2001–2003; 2010–present)
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