Taking Back Sunday announce new album ‘152’

August 31, 2023 James Weaver

TAKING BACK SUNDAY have announced a new album!

Titled 152, the upcoming album from the American emo band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Tidal Wave, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Fantasy Records.

The upcoming album was produced by Tushar Apte (whom the band met through a mutual collaboration with noted DJ Steve Aoki) and mixed by Neal Avron [TWENTY ONE PILOTS, BLEACHERS].

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “152 offers a lot more hope and light than we first realized when we were in the thick of it, putting it all together. We’ve been fortunate enough, through our music, to grow up with a lot of people going through the same things at the same time, and probably feeling the same way. Our hope is that you’re able to find a little bit of yourself in this new collection of songs, because you’re not alone, and neither are we.”

“You would think after 20 years, we knew what each other is going to do,” vocalist Adam Lazzara continues. “But there were so many times making this record where I heard the initial idea and thought I knew where it would go, but then I was super surprised. It’s those kinds of surprises that make it so exciting. That’s why we all still want it so badly.”

Drummer Mark O’Connell adds, “when we’re writing songs, the one thing we ask ourselves, ‘Is it capable of making people feel something?’ You try to make people feel emotion. That’s the one goal we went in with, and we think we did it.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, TAKING BACK SUNDAY have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; S’old. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from The One, which was released back in June.

Watch the official music video for S’old here: