“If you have an opinion maybe you shove it,” lead singer Hayley Williams softly sings before bursting into an explosive chorus. This Is Why instantly draws listeners in with the best song on the album-the title track, “This Is Why.”
Paramore could have capitalized on the contrast between the quiet and loud songs on the album, but as it stands, This Is Why feels like an album that occasionally reaches the explosive highs of Paramore’s discography but fails to impress in the softer moments. This Is Why feels like an album of two sounds. Despite a powerful and upbeat start, This Is Why mellows out in the second half, making the album an overall disappointing experience in comparison to the high-energy music Paramore produced in the past. Out on Atlantic.Pop-punk band Paramore returned with its first album in six years with This Is Why on Feb. Uncomfortable, angry, and often a bit obvious, but still engaging. Liar is a “You’re so Vain” sort of track that seems aimed by Williams about her relationship with the band’s guitarist Taylor York. C’est Comme Ça feels like the most pop-like offering. Big Man, Little Dignity opens with a lovely woodwind section before hitting a catchy, indie groove.
It’s an album very much shaped by preoccupations of a post-teenage millennial generation, the pressures and interactions of social media and its increasing polarisations, including the opener title track, in which Williams proclaims: “My social life – a chiropractic appointment.” The record is rife with self-doubt in a troubled world, from You First, Running Out of Time, The News, and Crave, where hedonism, paranoia and post-truth collide. The Tennessee rock band fronted by Hayley Williams return with their sixth album, a more angular guitar affair influenced by Bloc Party and Foals, marrying post-punk with edgy, angry restless indie pop.
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