Louder Now

Louder Now
Studio album by Taking Back Sunday
Released April 25, 2006
December 12, 2006 (Louder Now: PartOne)
Recorded Hollywood, California
Genre Alternative rock, post-hardcore, emo, pop punk
Length 45:38
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Eric Valentine
Taking Back Sunday chronology
Where You Want to Be
(2004)		 Louder Now
(2006)		 Notes from the Past
(2007)
Singles from Louder Now
  1. "MakeDamnSure"
    Released: April 25, 2006
  2. "Twenty-Twenty Surgery"
    Released: August 28, 2006
  3. "Liar (It Takes One to Know One)"
    Released: November 6, 2006
Alternative cover
Special Edition CD/DVD Dual Cover
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(64/100) [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk75% [2]
Allmusic [3]
Alternative Press [4]
The A.V. ClubC− [5]
Entertainment WeeklyB+ [6]
Now[7]
Rolling Stone [8]
Spin(8/10) [1]
Stylus MagazineB− [9]
Uncut [1]

Louder Now is the third album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday, released on April 25, 2006 through Warner Bros. Records. The first single off the album was "MakeDamnSure." The song "Error: Operator" was released on the Fantastic Four 2005 film soundtrack, but was altered and revamped for Louder Now, resulting in the 2005 version becoming known as the "F4 Edit".

Music and lyrics

There were two other songs recorded during the Louder Now sessions, "Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)" and "Sleep". "Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)" is on the iTunes bonus version of Louder Now, and "Sleep" is on the "MakeDamnSure" UK single released May 22.

The title Louder Now appears as a lyric in the song "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?" as well as in "Bonus Mosh Pt. II" from their album Where You Want to Be.

Louder Now was the band's last release featuring Fred Mascherino as lead guitarist and back-up vocalist

Album art

The cover for the album began as a photograph the band found called 'New York City, 1963' by a New York photographer named Joel Meyerowitz.

The band had this to say: "We thought the irony of the speaker covering someone's persona, making something both more prominent yet more hidden at the same time was really interesting. So we called Mr. Meyerowitz and he was nice enough to let us share his photo so we could create our cover. Brad [Filip] did the rest and the result is 'Louder Now'."

There are two versions of the album artwork, one is the original album art cover, the other, is the one used to promote the single 'MakeDamnSure' on selected websites.

Release

The album was voted the best of 2006 in Kerrang! magazine's end-of-year poll.

By August 2006, the album had sold over 470,000 copies.[10] As of June 9, 2008, the album has sold over 900,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Special edition

On December 12, 2006 Taking Back Sunday released a special CD/DVD version on the album entitled The Louder Now DVD: PartOne. The DVD was the first from the group and the CD/DVD was packaged in a dual cover, featuring the original album cover and a new cover by Greg Watermann. The CD includes the original 11 tracks plus four live tracks.

The DVD contains over 60 minutes of footage, documenting the making of the album, their world tour and also live and behind the scenes footage of a show at the Long Beach Arena. The band's website states that "...it has more behind the scenes footage than we've ever released before - about 60 minutes of the clowning around that you know and love."

Louder Now: PartOne had a dual cover, containing the original cover as well a new cover: a photo by Greg Watermann. The photo was taken during the band's Long Beach Area show in the summer of 2006, and was chosen because it contained all five band members.

Reception

The album so far has a score of 64 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews".[1] Most reviews are positive: IGN gave the album a score of 6.7 out of ten and said, "It's a safe bet to say that TBS diehards will soak up the 11 tracks with a sponge-like vengeance. Newcomers may wonder what all the bells and whistles are about, though. But tracks like "My Blue Heaven," "Spin," "Divine Intervention," and "I'll Let You Live" promise even greater things to come from this band, who are only now hinting at their growing sonic maturity."[11] Others are mixed or unfavorable: NME gave the album a score of six out of ten and said "it tails off towards the end, and TBS never quite shake the feeling that other people are doing this sort of thing far more thrillingly elsewhere."[1] Punknews.org gave it one-and-a-half stars out of five and said it was "getting old and pretty boring. Taking their often-compared counterparts in Brand New under consideration, Taking Back Sunday simply hasn't grown. While the last album's lack of maturity could be blamed on the band being re-formed, they've been a single group now for long enough that there should be some sense of growth. Instead, what I'm hearing is the best impersonation of old Taking Back Sunday that the new Taking Back Sunday could put together."[12]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Taking Back Sunday.

  1. "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?" – 3:47
  2. "Liar (It Takes One to Know One)" – 3:09
  3. "MakeDamnSure" – 3:32
  4. "Up Against (Blackout)" – 3:02
  5. "My Blue Heaven" – 4:09
  6. "Twenty-Twenty Surgery" – 3:55
  7. "Spin" – 3:39
  8. "Divine Intervention" – 4:14
  9. "Miami" – 3:41
  10. "Error: Operator" – 2:51
  11. "I'll Let You Live" – 5:07
Bonus tracks

Personnel

Taking Back Sunday[14]
Additional musicians
Production

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Critic Reviews for Louder Now - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now". absolutepunk.net. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Allmusic review
  4. ↑ "Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now". Alternative Press. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Review: Thursday / Taking Back Sunday · Music Review · The A.V. Club". avclub.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Louder Now - EW.com". Entertainment Weekly's EW.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  7. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060716045430/http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-03-23/music_discs5.php
  8. ↑ Rolling Stone review at the Wayback Machine (archived October 14, 2007)
  9. ↑ "Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now - Review - Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  10. ↑ Kohli, Rohan (August 30, 2006). "Soundscan Results: Week Ending August 27th, 2006". absolutepunk.net. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now". IGN. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Taking Back Sunday". punknews.org. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Louder Now (Deluxe Version) by Taking Back Sunday". iTunes. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "Louder Now - Taking Back Sunday". AllMusic. 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2012-02-29.

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