Limited to 500 copies. UPC: 790692704811 It's difficult to believe that Tidal Wave is Taking Back Sunday's seventh album; it's not only the follow-up to 2014's Happiness Is but also marks the first time the group have ever made three consecutive albums with the same lineup and the band brought back producer Mike Sapone and mixer Claudius Mittendorfer, who both worked on Happiness Is . Tidal Wave also marks the first time that Taking Back Sunday wrote in the studio as they recorded and having that type of fluidity when it came to the songwriting also lent itself to heightened collaboration & creativity throughout the process. "It was really amazing to be able to write in the studio because we could come up with an idea, perform it and then listen back to it immediately instead of feeling boxed in by what we did on demos," Lazzara explains. "Every song was up for being changed or rewritten when we were in the studio, which was an approach that Adam really encouraged, & nothing was ever set in stone in the sense that if someone had any idea for how to make a song better, we would give it a shot," Nolan adds. "That approach has potential to be really disastrous, but we were fortunate enough to see everything through & use our collective judgment to take things to the next level." Nolan specifically cites 'Homecoming' as a song the band constantly kept returning to in order to finally achieve the version that's present on Tidal Wave. 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 as stated earlier 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 and energetically. "I think this idea of making songs that we wrote for ourselves started with Happiness Is & since the reaction t...