Taking Back Sunday: “It doesn’t matter where music comes from – you can’t mess with Harry Styles’ last album”

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Taking Back Sunday have shared new single ‘Keep Going’ – with vocalist Adam Lazzara and guitarist John Nolan talking to NME about embracing pop for their “shiny” new album ‘152’, not wanting to celebrate the past and the much-needed community that playing live offers.The band’s eighth studio album ‘152’ is out this Friday (October 27) and “feels different” to what’s come before, according to Lazzara. “Going into the record, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure everything was miles away from anything we’d done before.”“When you’ve been doing this for as long as we have, there’s a danger it’ll get to a point where nobody cares that you’re putting out new music,” continued Nolan. “The only way to really avoid that is to make an album so good that it gets people excited and demands their attention.”Their previous album was the scuzzy punk rage of 2016’s ‘Tidal Wave’, and in the years that followed the band supported fellow emo giants My Chemical Romance on their massive reunion tour, appeared at the nostalgia-driven When We Were Young festival and went out on their own 20-year anniversary tour – celebrating by playing breakout albums ‘Tell All Your Friends’, ‘Louder Now’ and ‘Where You Want To Be’ in their entirety.“If you do anything for 20 years, you should probably celebrate it, but I still went into that tour kicking and screaming,” said Lazzara. “We don’t want to be the guys that were, we want to be the guys that are.

When you spend too much time inside of nostalgia or trying to capitalise on something that used to work, you’re doing a great disservice to the beautiful person you’ve become since.”It meant that the New Yorkers found themselves at a “crossroads” going into their eighth album. “We knew we.