New Again by Taking Back Sunday

New Again, Taking Back Sunday's fourth album, hit shelves on Warner Bros. in June 2009 after a shake-up. Guitarist Fred Mascherino left once the Projekt Revolution tour wrapped in September 2007, the Amityville band took a breather, and Matthew Fazzi of Facing New York came aboard in early 2008, earning praise from singer Adam Lazzara for bringing new instruments into the mix. Matt Squire and David Kahne produced the sessions, spread across studios in New York and California that October and November.

Guitarist Eddie Reyes rated it among the most aggressive things they'd ever written, and it does come out swinging, with Lazzara at his most commanding over churning guitars and Mark O'Connell's pounding drums. "Sink into Me" was the single. Critics liked it and it opened at number 7 on the Billboard 200, but Lazzara himself never warmed to it, and within a year Fazzi and bassist Matthew Rubano were gone as John Nolan and Shaun Cooper returned.

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