The year has been off to a pretty difficult start, but the good news always finds a way to add a glimmer of hope. Nature is healing — Paramore are back in the studio.
Despite frontwoman Hayley Williams' detour into releasing back-to-back solo albums with 2020's Petals for Armor and 2021's FLOWERS for VASES / descansos, a new interview with Rolling Stone reveals that she was anxious to get back together with her Paramore bandmates Taylor York and Zac Farro after the time apart.
"We wrote and tracked something we loved and it actually surprised us," Williams said of the trio's first day reconnecting at a songwriting session in Nashville. "We kept joking it was all downhill from that point, but thank God we've been surprised a lot throughout this whole thing."
The singer-songwriter elaborated:
I'm always waiting for the moment for us to know we're onto something new and we're not just rehashing the same shit. It was "Ain't It Fun" for our self-titled record, and "Hard Times" or "Told You So" for After Laughter. It's not about it feeling like a hit so much as it's a scary, exciting feeling that you're treading uncharted waters. It keeps you curious. We got to feel that feeling early on this time.
Paramore have since relocated from their home state of Tennessee to a studio in California, where they intend to cut their forthcoming sixth record.
"I've been trying to get SZA to come hang with us 'cause I want to be friends in real life," Williams added, "but we leave the studio to eat and sleep and she's still carpe-ing the diem."
The untitled work-in-progress will be the band's first offering in nearly five years, as well as marking the first album they will have started and finished recording as a trio, since Farro came in halfway through the sessions for 2017's After Laughter.
In terms of sound, York and Williams have apparently been reminiscing on some of their earliest influences for Paramore's sixth LP. While they're still "in the thick of it," Williams notes some consistent through-lines in the music they're making: there's "more emphasis back on the guitar," and she and York are encouraging Farro to "go as Animal as he wants with drum takes."
The trio will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their initial meeting in March 2022 — and it sounds like we'll hopefully get to celebrate a new Paramore record in 2022, too.
Last year, Williams quit social media shortly after she and ex-bandmate Josh Farro were credited as co-writers on Olivia Rodrigo's "good 4 u."
Despite frontwoman Hayley Williams' detour into releasing back-to-back solo albums with 2020's Petals for Armor and 2021's FLOWERS for VASES / descansos, a new interview with Rolling Stone reveals that she was anxious to get back together with her Paramore bandmates Taylor York and Zac Farro after the time apart.
"We wrote and tracked something we loved and it actually surprised us," Williams said of the trio's first day reconnecting at a songwriting session in Nashville. "We kept joking it was all downhill from that point, but thank God we've been surprised a lot throughout this whole thing."
The singer-songwriter elaborated:
I'm always waiting for the moment for us to know we're onto something new and we're not just rehashing the same shit. It was "Ain't It Fun" for our self-titled record, and "Hard Times" or "Told You So" for After Laughter. It's not about it feeling like a hit so much as it's a scary, exciting feeling that you're treading uncharted waters. It keeps you curious. We got to feel that feeling early on this time.
Paramore have since relocated from their home state of Tennessee to a studio in California, where they intend to cut their forthcoming sixth record.
"I've been trying to get SZA to come hang with us 'cause I want to be friends in real life," Williams added, "but we leave the studio to eat and sleep and she's still carpe-ing the diem."
The untitled work-in-progress will be the band's first offering in nearly five years, as well as marking the first album they will have started and finished recording as a trio, since Farro came in halfway through the sessions for 2017's After Laughter.
In terms of sound, York and Williams have apparently been reminiscing on some of their earliest influences for Paramore's sixth LP. While they're still "in the thick of it," Williams notes some consistent through-lines in the music they're making: there's "more emphasis back on the guitar," and she and York are encouraging Farro to "go as Animal as he wants with drum takes."
The trio will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their initial meeting in March 2022 — and it sounds like we'll hopefully get to celebrate a new Paramore record in 2022, too.
Last year, Williams quit social media shortly after she and ex-bandmate Josh Farro were credited as co-writers on Olivia Rodrigo's "good 4 u."
