As
TAKING BACK SUNDAY gear up for their upcoming US tour through intimate clubs this September and October, the alt-rock quintet are unleashing
“You Can’t Look Back”, the second single and video from their seventh album
TIDAL WAVE (Hopeless Records; release date:
September 16, 2016). A contrast to performance footage of their previous video “Tidal Wave”, “You Can’t Look Back” is a gorgeously shot but viscerally-charged video of the band and their friends gathered around a campfire, when something happens wholly unexpectedly to vocalist
ADAM LAZZARA. The video can be viewed here:
http://smarturl.it/youcantlookback.
The upcoming tour posits the band in much smaller venues, enabling the band to connect with their audience better and play longer, extended sets. “Our idea is to go to the smallest clubs we can go to,” Lazzara told
Entertainment Weekly. “We’d like to debut this record as honestly as we can and what better way to do that in a small club?” Many shows have already sold out, including a duo of New York City shows at
Irving Plaza, Boston’s
Paradise Rock Club, Dallas’
Trees, and Nashville’s
Exit/In. Since their recently announced
Riot Festaftershow in Chicago sold out in less than an hour, the band will be holding an auction for two tickets, a Meet & Greet with the band, a signed copy of
Tidal Wave, a signed set list, etc. to benefit
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund which provides financial assistance to struggling musicians. The auction can be found here:
bit.ly/2bnH9cNGracing the cover of the September 2016 issue of
Substream Music Magazine who called
Tidal Wave “a full-on rock record from a rock band that still gives a damn about writing rock songs,” Taking Back Sunday’s return to the forefront of the alt-rock music scene has been heralded by
Entertainment Weekly, who broke the news of the band’s upcoming album, and praised the title track, pointing out Lazzara’s “rough-hewn vocals with thrashing, guitar-laden rock.”
Showcasing the strengths of the Taking Back Sunday’s continuous and consistent musical evolution from the breakneck kick off track “Death Wolf” to the anthemic “You Can’t Look Back” and the ballad “I Felt It Too”, the album also expands the band’s palette, especially evident on the album’s lead-off single and title track which channels The Clash both sonically and energetically. “I think this idea of making songs that we wrote for ourselves started with
Happiness Is... and since the reaction to that album was so positive it really encouraged us to take that a step further with this album,” guitarist John Nolan explains.
Taking Back Sunday is
Adam Lazzara (v
ocals),
John Nolan (g
uitars, vocals),
Eddie Reyes (g
uitars),
Shaun Cooper (b
ass), and
Mark O’Connell(d
rums).
TIDAL WAVE was produced by
Mike Sapone (
O'Brother, Mansions) in Charlotte, NC and mixed by
Claudius Mittendorpher (
Weezer, Drowners, Ra Ra Riot) and will be released on
September 16, 2016 via
Hopeless Records.
