Taking Back Sunday – Louder Now

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Taking Back Sunday

Louder Now - Warner Music

Blink182, Green Day, Ramones, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy. No matter what you think about these bands, it’s always slightly difficult to review albums by them. Why? Because you have nothing to compared them to. They are, whether you like it or not, innovators are their respected style – and they are the bands that are used when people try to describe other bands. They say, “Oh, it’s likeGreen Day‘s Dookie album” or “Fall Out Boy‘s From Under The Cork Tree“. They are the bands that reviewers use to describe other albums by – and Taking Back Sunday is one of those bands. So how, pre tell, can I review this new album by them? What can I compared them to? I guess I’ll have to compare them to themselves, because they have maintained their signature style – and anyone who, like me, was disappointed by their lackluster sophomore album, will be pleasantly surprised once you give Louder Now a spin.

I don’t know what happened in between albums, but on Louder NowTaking Back Sunday have gone back to what made them so popular in the first place. No, it’s not an exact replica of Tell All Your Friends, and it’s not as good as that either (but really, that’s just an ideal dream, without Nolan in the lineup, I’ll be very surprised if they ever create something as mind blowing as TAYF) – but nevertheless,Taking Back Sunday have crafted an album that carries nearly the same intensity of their breakout debut rather

The dueling vocals are back, with Lazzara’s signature vocals leading the ways. The music is harder. The riffs more complex, they even have a few guitar solos thrown in there (Miami). And the song structure is just more complete and complex than anything that was on Where You Want To Be. Songs like Liar (It Takes One To Know One), Error Operator, MakeDamnSure, What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost and sure-to-be-future single Twenty-Twenty Surgery instantly grab the listener’s attention, and even without the lyric booklet you are sing along after only a few listens.

Louder Now is a Taking Back Sunday album for Taking Back Sunday fans. It’s a heavier, more rock oriented album that, while it’s not quite as good as TAYF, is leaps and bounds beyond anything onWhere You Want To Be. Even with no other band to compare it to, it’s safe to say that once the masses finally hear the album, they will not be disappointed.