Released September 16, 2016 Label Hopeless Release date 16 September 2016 | Length 47:50 Artist Taking Back Sunday Producer Mike Sapone | |
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Studio Sioux Sioux Studio, Charlotte, North Carolina Genres Alternative rock, Pop punk, Heartland rock Similar Happiness Is, Taking Back Sunday, Tell All Your Friends, Louder Now, New Again | ||
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Tidal Wave is the seventh studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday, released on September 16, 2016, through Hopeless Records. The album peaked at number 36 on the Billboard 200.
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Composition and production
Material for the album was written in between tours for Happiness Is.
Mike Pepe and Ray Jeffrey worked on pre-production. Recording took place at Sioux Sioux Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina with producer Mike Sapone. Pepe engineered the sessions. The NoDa Tabernacle Good Times Choir provided additional vocals on "Homecoming". Claudius Mittendorfer mixed the recordings at Atomic Heart Studio in New York City, while Stephen Marcussen mastered them at Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood, California.
Musical style and influences
The album takes influences from such artists as the Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, The Gaslight Anthem, the Replacements, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Bryan Adams and Don Henley, fusing the alternative rock, pop punk and emo sound of the band, with elements of Americana, folk rock and heartland rock.
Release
Tidal Wave was released on September 16, 2016, through Hopeless Records.
Critical reception
Tidal Wave has received generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 73 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on seven reviews.
James Christopher Monger of AllMusic rated the album three and a half out of five stars and calls it "their most mature and diverse -- yet seamless -- set of songs to date." Entertainment Weekly's Maria Sherman rated the album a "B" and writes that it's "eclectic and sensitive," and "If emo is something that pigeonholes, Taking Back Sunday is making noble attempts to abandon those impulses—with Tidal Wave, the band is both emo and something else entirely."
Commercial performance
The album charted at number 36 on the Billboard 200, as well as number 2 on the Alternative Albums chart. The album also charted at number 54 in Australia and number 94 in Scotland.
Track listing
All songs written by Taking Back Sunday.
Personnel
Personnel per sleeve.
Release history
Source: Amazon.com
Songs
1Death Wolf4:12
2Tidal Wave2:32
3You Can’t Look Back4:27