Taking Back Sunday – “Tidal Wave” (Released 16th May 2025)

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//Hopeless//

£31.99 – 2xLP, Limited Edition Blue and Yellow Swirl Coloured Vinyl

In many ways, the album showcases the strengths of Taking Back Sunday’s musical evolution, from the blazing opener, “Death Wolf”, to the orchestrally tinged ballad, “Fences,” & syncopated anthem, “Call Come Running”.

However, there are also plenty of surprises on Tidal Wave such as the four-on-the-floor title track which sees them channeling the Clash both sonically & energetically. “I think this idea of making songs that we wrote for ourselves started with Happiness Is & since the reaction to that album was so positive it really encouraged us to take that a step further with this album,” Nolan explains. Furthermore, songs like “You Can’t Look Back” see Lazzara taking his vocals to stratospheric new levels in order to elevate these songs to a whole other plane of existence. “In the same spirit of being fearless when it came to the music, I tried to lean on the influence of some of my favorite singers on this album,” Lazzara explains. Case in point, during “Holy Water” it seems as if he is digging so deep that the song is the sonic equivalent of a bittersweet punch to the gut.

Tracklisting:

1. Death Wolf
2. Tidal Wave
3. You Can’t Look Back
4. Fences
5. All Excess
6. I Felt It Too
7. Call Come Running
8. Holy Water
9. In the Middle of It All
10. We Don’t Go in There
11. Homecoming
12. I’ll Find a Way to Make It What You Want