If you had told me – and countless others – six months ago, that I would be listening to this album, I might never have believed it. Stricken with the complexities of youth, Paramore were at one point unable to make conversation with one another, let alone write a record together. However, time’s healing properties appear to have worked their magic, and the band has once again pulled it off – in style. The appropriately titled third album delivers both typical Paramore panache in the form of tracks like ‘Looking Up’ and ‘Brick by Boring Brick’, whilst at the same time showing a decidedly more mature approach through the simplicity of stripped-down melodies such as ‘Misguided Ghosts.’ Although at times one is left longing for a little more of the Paramore-style punk of old, it becomes clear that not many people can put across their true feelings as well as Hayley Williams does in her flawless range of vocals, most prominently heard in ‘All I Wanted’. It is as if each lyric is a commitment to keeping the band together. The Franklin Quintet seem to have regained a sense of purpose.They have once again defied the label of ‘one-hit-wonders’. What really is apparent is that they truly mean it when they say that they are looking at the world – and their future for that matter – with brand new eyes.
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