sleeping with sirens gossip album review

Sleeping With Sirens will be touring to support their latest album, Gossip, which was released this past September. All tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 AM local time. Australian and New Zealand dates will begin April 21st in Sydney and wrap up on April 29th in Auckland. The North American trek starts January 22nd in Philadelphia and runs all the way through February 16th in Indianapolis. For Australia and New Zealand, support for the tour will come from Chase Atlantic, Lower Than Atlantis, and the Faim. For the North American leg, the band will be joined by Set it Off and the Gospel Youth. With How It Feels to Be Lost, Sleeping with Sirens find their way again, delivering a passionate and anguished jolt of melodic post-hardcore that doesn't sacrifice catchiness or their identity.Sleeping With Sirens have announced that they will be hitting the road in 2018 with a huge headlining world tour. While Gossip wasn't outright terrible, the abrupt stylistic shift from Madness and its uneven execution seemed at odds with the band's authenticity. Missing You' also impress with their intensity and desperate energy, as Quinn screams about common themes of loneliness, hopelessness, and fear. In addition to standouts such as the soaring 'Leave It All Behind,' the rollicking 'Break Me Down,' and the pummeling 'Agree to Disagree,' the urgent set also boasts a collaboration with Benji Madden on 'Never Enough.' Pensive moments such as 'Ghosts' and 'P.S. Hitting a balance between the melodic and aggressive like contemporaries Bring Me the Horizon and Hands Like Houses, the quartet retain some of the pop savvy from Gossip (especially on the choruses) and resurrect the cutting riffs, pounding drums, and gang choruses from past work. Frontman Kellin Quinn's vocals remain in top form, veering from throat-shredding cries to gorgeous mellifluous runs, as the band - Justin Hills, Jack Fowler, and Nick Martin - whirl in a torrent around him.

Issued on Sumerian Records, How It Feels to Be Lost is the band's sixth album and a welcome homecoming to the comfort zone of their heavier raw material. Following 2017's glossy Gossip, Florida post-hardcore mainstays Sleeping with Sirens returned with a course-correcting LP for a new label.

Sleeping with sirens gossip album review