aaamusic | On 11, Jun 2011

Preview June 27th release of upcoming self-titled album with the ‘This Is All Now’ EP

Band set to return to the UK in August for headline dates and festival shows

“Full of dark, desperate energy, these songs confirm that Taking Back Sunday are back on track” – Kerrang!

Taking Back Sunday preview the June 27th release of their upcoming self-titled album a new three-track EP entitled ‘This Is All Now’.

Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Lostprophets) who also helmed Taking Back Sunday’s ‘Louder Now’ album which topped Kerrang!’s 2006 Album of the Year poll, ‘This Is All Now’ features two songs from the new album in the shape of ‘This Is All Now’ and ‘Best Places To Be A Mom’. The EP is completed by a new acoustic performance of ‘Ghost Man On Third’, the original version of which appeared on the line-up’s last album together, 2002’s million-selling ‘Tell All Your Friends’.

The EP is the latest in a string of teasers ahead of the release of the new album. First, the band unveiled a demo version of ‘Best Places To Be A Mom’ on their official website which had been premiered on the band’s brief June 2010 US tour that they embarked upon shortly after announcing that John Nolan (guitar/vocals) and Shaun Cooper (bass) had returned to the fold. They subsequently followed it with ‘El Paso’, a raw blast of garage-rock vitriol and loud/quiet/loud dynamics and the first completed track to emerge from the recording sessions.

Writing for the self-titled album commenced at the Sonic Ranch, a studio based in a pecan ranch in El Paso, Texas shortly after the five members reunited last year and continued at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, while the recording took place at Barefoot Recording in Hollywood. The band is completed by long-term members Adam Lazzara (vocals), Eddie Reyes (guitar) and Mark O’Connell (drums).

This line-up of the band recently played their first ever UK shows including a date at London’s prestigious Roundhouse. Kerrang!’s review of the show noted the “scream-a-long mosh pit reactions” to the band’s old material and the “rapturous response” greeted to the new songs. The band return later in the summer for further headline dates as well as main stage slots at the Reading and Leeds festivals:

August – rescheduled dates

23rd – Glasgow ABC
24th – Manchester Academy
26th – Leeds Festival
28th – Reading Festival
29th – Bath Pavilion
30th – Norwich UEA

September

1st – Birmingham Institute
2nd – Southampton Guildhall

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