Description
For over two decades,Taking Back Sundayhas cultivated a massive, dedicated fanbase built around music that reverberates with supreme sincerity, desire, and connection. The influential, multiplatinum selling rock band, originally from Long Island, NY, brought mature songcraft and pop sensibilities to punkrsquos rigid conformity, helping expand the genrersquos contours while carrying the band to new heightsfrac34and in the process, galvanized artists such as The Killers, Kings of Leon, My Chemical Romance, and Paramore, among many others. Now, Taking Back SundayJohn Nolanlead guitar, piano, vocals,Adam Lazzaralead vocals,Shaun Cooperbass, andMark OrsquoConnelldrums, is set to release their eighth studio album and Fantasy Records debut titled152, their first collection of new music since 2016rsquosTidal Wave.152, named for the Charlotte, NC offramp that became a popular meetinthemiddle stop for a group of friends was produced by Tushar Apte whom the band met through a mutual collaboration with noted DJ Steve Aoki and mixed by Neal Avron Twenty One Pilots, Bleachers, Sara Bareilles. The longawaited LP, featuring 10 intensely vulnerable and absorbing new tracks all written and recorded by the group is delivered with fresh ambition and newfound purpose. Deeply inspired by the long layoff and the cloud of uncertainty that blanketed the world and music industry these past few years,152stands among the most genuinely reflective and emotionally pure efforts of Taking Back Sundayrsquos illustrious career.
