Taking Back Sunday Announce New Album, ‘Tidal Wave’

Taking Back Sunday have announced they’ll be releasing their new album, Tidal Wave, on September 16 via Hopeless Records. You can read what the band had to say to Entertainment Weekly below.
“The name Tidal Wave is taken from the collection’s first single, which they’ve been playing at recent live shows. ‘Even throughout each song on the record there are a lot of references to water,’ Lazzara explains. ‘That’s why it seems like that title kept poking its neck out.’
The collection, though, may strike longtime fans as a retreat from the sound that made them famous with albums like 2002’s Tell All Your Friends and 2004’s Where You Want To Be. ‘Tidal Wave is a bit of a departure but I don’t think its coming out of left field,’ Lazzara says. ‘We realize anything we do is going to sound like Taking Back Sunday.’
When asked if he would classify Tidal Wave as part of the emo genre associated with their past albums, 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.’” -Entertainment Weekly
