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| Personnel Taylor York vocals guitar keyboards synthesizer drums percussion programming Hayley Williams vocals keyboards synthesizer background vocals Ilan Rubin vocals drums percussion Justin Davis vocals Erik Arvinder Songa Lee Kathleen Sloan Luke Maurer Vanessa Freebairn-Smith Sam Fischer Caroline Campbell Alma Fernandez strings Jeremy Davis keyboards synthesizer bass guitar Justin Meldal-Johnsen keyboards synthesizer percussion programming Carlos de la Garza percussion Audio Mixer Ken Andrews Recording information Chez JMJ Music Friends Sunset Sound Studio Photographer Pamela Littky Easily the band s most adventurous experimental and accomplished release to date Paramore s fourth studio album 2013 s eponymously titled Paramore is a landmark a genre-breaking masterwork that like Madonna s Like a Prayer or U2 s Achtung Baby finds Paramore crystallized into the seminal cogent rock band we always knew they d grow up to be For this release Paramore worked with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen whose previous production credits include artists like Neon Trees and M83 Perhaps not the most obvious choice for a band that developed alongside labelmates like Fall Out Boy but the first-time pairing explodes with chemistry coalescing the group s grand emotionality and ridiculously tight hooks with ever new and genius musical avenues like electronica and even orchestral flourishes The idea that your songs should only include instrumentation that you can pack into your tour van is a practical limitation that for plenty of bands especially those of the punk ethos can become a downright philosophical limitation But when original guitarist and drummer Zac and Josh Farro left the band in 2010 Paramore were forced to allow vital roles in their sound to be filled with hired professionals rather than actual bandmembers - after all they needed somebody to play drums This clearly opened the band up to explor |
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