Paramore's highly anticipated new record has been given a release date! Brand New Eyes is set to drop September 29th on Fueled By Ramen. The album artwork and track listing can be seen below. The first single "Ignorance" will be available for download on Amazon and iTunes July 7th. Album pre-orders will begin the same date on their official site. Singer Hayley Williams has twittered that they are practicing for an MTV Unplugged special. The "Misery Business" rockers are currently on tour with No Doubt. 1. Careful 2. Ignorance 3. Playing God 4. Brick by Boring Brick 5. Turn It Off 6. The Only Exception 7. Feeling Sorry 8. Looking Up 9. Where the Lines Overlap 10. Misguided Ghosts 11. All I Wanted
Never really listened to their music that much, but who else agrees that vertical line on the cover ruins the artwork?
^ Now that you point it out, it does. But it's still a pretty good cover. I think Paramore are the most fun pop-rock band out there so I can't wait for this.
It's kind of a minimalistic cover and not a very original one at that... still, think it could do without it.
The album cover is uninspiring and likely not at all connected with anything the music is about either thematically or graphically. It would not look any better with or without a vertical line.
In fairness this is a band who don't tend to have particularly great looking cover art anyway (in my opinion at least). But yeah, I'm looking forward to this album. It seems to be getting a lot of hype from some areas but I'm trying to ignore it, because it's the sort of stuff where I'd end up disappointed if it doesn't turn out to be one of the best albums I've ever heard. I mean, I've seen some of the songs compared to Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead, and that's a lot to live up to.
Ignorance, the first single, is out. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but I have a really good feeling about this album.
It's a butterfly pinned to a fence, which is why there's a line there. If the line weren't there, it'd look like a white space, which is kinda disconcerting when you've got that kind of minimalist thing to begin with. It actually is, if you read what Hayley said about the artwork. I've got a really good feeling about this album.
I listened to the leaked web-rip thing and was unimpressed. After decode I was expecting something awesome, but it's basically just Riot! pt.2.
I have to say, after like 4 listens all the way through on repeat, this album has completely grown on me and I find it MUCH more enjoyable than Riot! and is one of my new favorites of the year so far. Fucking GREAT album. I'm happy Riot! wasn't just it for them, because I didn't care for the first album. So this pleases my ears.
Haven't they had two before this? Yeah, the previous work was better. I didn't really enjoy more than two songs on this album, but I do enjoy a lot of their other stuff.
Freakin' great album. Way more mature lyrically than their previous albums and Hayley's vocal chops continue to improve. She gets 10x better every album, and if the guys progressed just as well this would be a masterpiece. Her vocals really carry this album to an easy 4/5 though, some really good songs on it.
This. The album doesn't do it for me for some reason. I prefer the other 2. The material is alright, just not up my alley unfortunately.