paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

They could change it to "bore", or "chore"... alotta options.

In other news, despite it's modest chart performance, "Hard Times" has become quite the CVS Jam.

hayley's got a radio show called "everything is emo," first episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c3hp39

great set

Hard times.

touring this fall, registered for the “verified fan presale” lfggggg

this means a new album, right

seriously tho can anyone explain to me how this Ticketmaster Verified Fan bs keeps tickets from scalpers, do they think scalpers don’t know how to fill out a form or

Really digging their new profile banner, although I can't tell what the hell it's supposed to be. Definitely signals a break from the neon times of After Laughter.

xpost I think it helps prevent bots from just gobbling up as much as possible. It's a bit like 2-step verification.

So, about half a year ago, Hayley mentioned in an interview

“We’ve thought about [the next Paramore album]. Taylor’s mentioned things like: ‘Oh, God – I miss guitars. We’ve found ourselves listening to a lot of older music that we grew up being inspired by. T and I liked stuff that was a bit more ratty sounding: The Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. All three of us loved Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Songs For The Deaf.’”
But yes, I hope for more Failure influence as well.

― peace, man, Wednesday, January 12, 2022 6:35 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

In her podcast today, Hayley mentioned that Bloc Party was in the mix of influences as well. I know Bloc Party at all, and I didn't pay enough attention to the songs of theirs that she played, so guess I'll have to go back and dig into that.

We started working on new material as a band over the last year and a half - you know, the three of us, Zac, Taylor and I - and I just want to say it, I don't even feel like it gives away very much...Bloc Party, from day one, was the number one reference because, it was like, there was such an urgency to their sound that was different from the fast punk or the pop punk or the loud wall-of-sound emo bands that were happening in the early 2000s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cp486b

wow wtf the paramore version of silent alarm would detonate my brain

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― ufo, Friday, July 29, 2022

^^^ would pay to hear Paramore cover them too.

the stated influences make me think the album's going to sound like "fast in my car"

They've changed their instagram profile pics. Something will be happening soon.

Paramore just changed their profile picture on Instagram. 🥺 pic.twitter.com/t0qTuGlPhk

— PARAMORE ITALIA (@italiaparamore) September 7, 2022

there was the rumour of something being released on the 9th

NOVO VÍDEO POSTADO PELO PARAMORE! pic.twitter.com/fIVF2Qt4iE

— Paramore Brasil 🖤 (@paramorebrasil) September 8, 2022

snippet of new track released on their discord last night. Rumors were going around that Hayley might drop the new track on her BBC Sounds podcast today, but now there are concerns that the podcast will be delayed due to British problems.

didn't y'all literally go to war to avoid showing deference to the monarchy come on Hayley

her radio show where new music was rumored to be premiered is on the bbc which stands for Big Boot liCkers

Hey the snippet sounds promising and this is on their website:

9.1 - discord
9.7 - blank
9.9 - wr0ng
9.12 - L A
9.16 -
9.19 - start spreading the news.
9.28 -

"L A" just meant two more shows in Los Angeles, which seems like a subpar payoff for a cryptic hint.

lol that's exactly what I suspected, not v cryptic at all???

a lot of people thought it was misdirection and that L A would stand for the title of a single, perhaps.

new clip from the song.

https://www.tiktok.com/@isthiswhyisthisiswhy/video/7141807075423718698?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

Sept. 28

“This Is Why,” the song. Sept 28.

Pre-save: https://t.co/wpwFvGNPJb pic.twitter.com/U1hZWh2Ind

— paramore (@paramore) September 16, 2022

album is apparently also titled this is why, out february 10

5 minutes until the video premier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9g0L5eiGgc

fucking fuck yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIYJ7VaSxYY

That new song is great, love hearing something that doesn't remind me of much besides the band playing it. pretty neat hearing these sort of subtle psych rock flourishes butt up against post punk.

Yeah that's good fun, that is.

xp: yeah, it really felt like Zac had a hand in the writing of the song.

oh this sounds so much like foals lol

it's decent, definitely hear that they're into silent alarm at the moment. looking forward to more simultaneously loose & spiky post-punk

i like that it hasn't left the after laughter sound behind entirely either but is intent on making it murkier like fog-clouded glass

i will be singing the chorus of this song to myself every time i have to leave the house for the rest of my life probably

also makes me think what if "now" got reconfigured by the much groovier band they became on the last album, down to the bridge being the emotional climax of the song

would listen to a whole album of just taylor york playing guitar, dude is so tasteful

glad they continue to be the best band of all time

Nice.

https://i.imgur.com/a4aEfY3.gif

hard times

even the typeface pic.twitter.com/NCnHC6HpdW

— Mark Pytlik (@markpytlik) September 28, 2022

i love this song, perfect direction for them to go in (if the rest of the album is like this)

I like this a lot, it reminds me of Lonelady which is not what I was expecting.

OTOH the only good reason to delay the album until next year is to maximise ILM poll placement opportunities.

Do any of you know what's behind long-ass album rollouts these days? There seem to be more of them lately, where the initial single will be released 5-6 months before the album comes out (see also Charli XCX's last album). I've seen people speculate that it is related to vinyl manufacturing delays. But if that's the case, why not just hold the single until it is closer to the time for the records to be ready?

Yeah, I don't know what the strategy actually is supposed to be, but for me it feels like an album getting perpetually released over the course of several weeks/months, to the extent that when it actually does come out I sometimes miss it or forget to listen to it. Happened most recently with Beach House, maybe, and perhaps the Beths. I worry it will happen with this and the 1975. For sure it happened with the Hayley Williams solo album.

the 1975 have regularly done absurdly long rollouts which seems to be in significant part due to their own disorganisation, but they also love drip-feeding singles

paramore go on tour next week so i'd imagine they probably already had the tour booked & wanted to have new music out before then but the release got held up due to vinyl manufacturing delays & this is the compromise

both of those are different to the beach house/hayley solo album cases though where they were released essentially as a series of multiple EPs - idk what's with that as an approach, it's been common enough in recent years, but i can't think of anything where i've appreciated it

opening 30 seconds sounds like poppy Broadcast. god if the rest of the album is even in that vein.

ah they're not working with jmj this album, that's a shame - guess he's too busy with st vincent recently. it's being produced by carlos de la garza who engineered & mixed the last two + hayley's solo albums

xxp: trying to line things up with tours could be a reasonable explanation. Another example that I heard people talking about was Muse. The first single off this year's album debuted in January, but the album wasn't released until August. However, it looks like their world tour started in April, so that scenario could make sense.

Anyway, back to Paramore.

It sounds to me like the guys are singing background on the chorus, but I'm not totally sure. Anyone else hear that?

Zac's drumming is great.

Add this to the long list of Paramore songs that use "falling" as a metaphor.

it looks like muse were just booked for all the summer festivals & probably would have liked to have been able to get the album out before them but couldn't. the dates before that were just a few promo shows it looks like. an eight month rollout is pretty silly yeah.

apparently in addition to all the 00s dance-punk influences they were also really into the second rhcp album during recording??

imo… hell yeah

Best Chi-Peps record to be into.