Tell all your friends, Taking Back Sunday are back in the new music business. The early '00s Long Island, New York emo trailblazers have shared a video for their first new song in four years The One.
An inspiring declaration of love, hope, and acceptance, The One is a soaring reminder to seize the moment and live your dreams while you still can. In the track’s accompanying video, directed by DJay Brawner, the band primes for the next gig and new roads that lay ahead—inviting us along for the mystery ride.
Produced by Tushar Apte (Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj), and mixed by Neal Avron (Twenty One Pilots, Bleachers), The One finds the influential rock band flexing its creative muscles and evolving its sound without ever losing sight of the explosive riffs, affecting vocals, and epic choruses that has resonated with their audiences for so long. The track also marks the band’s first release for Fantasy Records, the L.A based indie label who signed the influential quartet to a world-wide recording contract earlier this year.
Speaking on the new track, the band offers "The One is a sweet love song—full on John Cusack holding a boombox," the band says in a nod to the classic 80’s cinema moment in Say Anything. "We’ve been waiting a long time to share this song and we’re so excited that we finally can. We hope you love it as much as we do."
On the track’s deeper meaning, the band exands , "This song came from a riff that Shaun Cooper wrote the day he lost his grandmother while she was in a nursing home at the start of the Covid pandemic. Devastated with overpowering sadness, he found comfort in writing music and initially titled the riff ‘Posivibes’ in an effort to find some light through the darkness. He never shared the story of the title or how that riff came together with us until after it was complete. Shaun didn’t want his story affecting the ultimate meaning of the song, because it’s actually an uplifting one."
The arrival of The One is perfectly timed with the renaissance of the sound and scene of the band's heyday. With everything early-mid '00s emo suddenly very much in vogue, the arrival of The One has the potential to not only satiate their loyal fanbase, but find new ears, eagerly lapping up the emo revival.
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