You're Welcome

by A Day to Remember

Overview

On their first offering of the 2020s, Florida's A Day to Remember update their sound by combining big pop gestures, crushing metalcore breakdowns, and pop-punk melodicism into a singular whirling vision. The band's seventh set, You're Welcome follows 2016's comparably more-punishing Bad Vibrations, adopting a mainstream style that takes the band further and further away from their 2000s early days. Similar to contemporary shifts from acts like Sleeping with Sirens and Hands Like Houses, the changes on You're Welcome are not necessarily catastrophic. The soaring "Bloodsucker" is aggressive in spirit but catchy enough for radio airplay (with its gang chorus and singalong quality), while "High Diving" is so buoyant it could have been a cover of something off Paramore's After Laughter (more divisively, "Everything We Need" could be an Imagine Dragons song and "F.Y.M." echoes late-era Muse). The urgent bloodletting of the synth-and-drum highlight "Looks Like Hell" even recalls the crossover kings of heavy music, Linkin Park. Still, diehards need not fear -- there's remnants of old-fashioned muscle to sate the mosh pits. "Resentment" is a perfect example of what they're going for on this album: melodic enough to groove along to, but punishing enough to thrash. Elsewhere, "Last Chance to Dance (Bad Friend)" provides enough testosterone to quench the metalcore thirst, delivering the heaviest moment on the LP. Upon release, You're Welcome debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200. ~ Neil Z. Yeung

Product Details

Release Date:	03/05/2021
Label:	Fueled By Ramen Records / Parlophone
UPC:	0075678651267

Tracks

1. Brick Wall
2. Mindreader
3. Bloodsucker
4. Last Chance to Dance (Bad Friend)
5. F.Y.M
6. High Diving
7. Resentment
8. Looks Like Hell
9. Viva La Mexico
10. Only Money
11. Degenerates
12. Permanent
13. Re-Entry
14. Everything We Need

Album Credits

Performance Credits

A Day to Remember   Primary Artist
Aaron Brooks   Guitar
Joshua Woodard   Bass
Neil Westfall   Guitar,Vocals
Jeremy McKinnon   Vocals
Kevin Skaff   Guitar,Vocals
Alex Shelnutt   Drums

Technical Credits

Roger Matt   Cover Art
Mike Green   Producer,Mixing,Composer
Mike Kalajian   Mastering
Nathan Willett   Composer
Joshua Woodard   Group Member
Neil Westfall   Composer,Group Member
Will Putney   Producer
Dan Book   Composer,Producer
Tom Lord-Alge   Mixing
Jeremy McKinnon   Composer,Producer,Group Member
Alison Murphy   A&R
Steve Robertson   A&R
Zac Carper   Mixing,Composer
James Hartley   Photography
Mike Cortada   Artwork,Cover Art
Matthew Aveiro   Composer
William Putney   Composer
Alex Tumay   Mixing
Jon Bellion   Composer
Dan Lancaster   Mixing
Nick Long   Composer
Cody Quistad   Composer
Scott Skrzynski   Editing,Mixing Assistant
Neal Avron   Mixing
A Day to Remember   Composer
Josh Wilbur   Mixing
Kevin Skaff   Composer,Group Member
Jimmy Fontaine   Band Photo
Alex Shelnutt   Group Member
Colin Brittain   Mixing,Composer,Producer
WZRD BLD   Producer,Additional Production
Matthew Maust   Composer
Chris Kutsor   Cover Art
Jonathan Russell   Composer
Andrew Colin Fulk   Composer
Rhys May   Mixing Assistant
Chris Martignago   A&R