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Mayday ParadeWhat It Means to Fall Apart

Rise Records
19th November, 2021
7
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We’ve got to give Mayday Parade credit. Their seventh LP, What It Means to Fall Apart, may not reinvent the wheel, but it is still full of earworms.

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Again, the Floridians have dropped a bunch of tunes that’ll transport you back to the halls of your high school. And if you’ve heard a Mayday album before, you’ll know exactly what to expect here. Nostalgic, feel-good and heartstring-pulling moments anchor this LP because it’s what the band does best.


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What It Means to Fall Apart is more or less a pop-punk record, but it does play host to a couple of changes in pace. There’s Think of Me, the album’s acoustic ditty, reminiscent of summer days, especially with its little touches like whistling. Then, there’s our standout track, If My Ghosts Don’t Play, I Don’t Play, which dips its toes into the alt-rock world.

Mayday Parade has taken us for another ride on their emotional roller coaster, but hey, we weren’t quite ready to get off yet anyway!

Finally, there’s the synthy, glitch beat-driven Heaven. Unfortunately, this track is jarring and one of WIMTFA’s lower points. But, the band quickly regain the lost momentum on its follow-up Angels Die Here, a gentle number that champions Derek Sanders’ swooning vocal approach. What It Means to Fall Apart doesn’t quite hold the same spark that made some of their past records such classics, but it is still pretty damn good. Mayday Parade has taken us for another ride on their emotional roller coaster, but hey, we weren’t quite ready to get off yet anyway!

STANDOUT TRACKS: Think of You, If My Ghosts Don’t Play, I Don’t Play,  Bad at Love
STICK THIS NEXT TO: Boys Like Girls, We The Kings, You Me At Six


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