Yellowcard pampers fans before splitting up.
The pop-punk era might have passed, but many of the bands are still around. As a reformed Blink 182, a more political Green Day, and a sillier Good Charlotte are still keeping the movement on the charts.
This bands still have a solid fan base that wants to keep listening to them as they crave their youthful days of being dumb and reckless.So that’s why saying farewell to any important band of that wave is always hard. Yellowcard is the one saying its final goodbye, through a music video for “A Place We Set Afire.”
Big Finale
On September 30th of 2016, Yellowcard released their self-titled album. As they rejoined Hopeless Records after they left on March of 2014. The band then released their lead single off the album “Rest In Peace,” and announced they would be playing on the Vans Warped Tour.
Then on June 25th of the past year, after the excitement for the new album, the band announced on their official website that the group would be breaking up after a final tour. As it said on the page: “Please come and join us on our last trip around the globe. We hope to share this final record and tour with each and every one of you.”
The tour went through the U.S., the U.K, and Australia. Getting several sold-out shows as the band played their final gig on March 25th of 2017, at the House Of Blues in Anaheim, California. Finally, on April 12th, 2017, they released their goodbye and final musical video for “A Place We Set Afire.” Along with a statement saying: “We are happy to finally release our last music video. This song was inspired by and written for you.”
Yellowcard played their last UK show at December they thanked the bands reflecting on their trajectory. “We have played shows for nearly two decades on six continents, and had the chance to keep recording the music we love year after year. While it is with sadness that we say goodbye, it is with gratitude and amazement that we look back on a career we can be proud of, and were so very lucky to have had.”
About their last album
After enjoying the success of the pop-punk era, especially with some pretty successful albums like “Oceans Avenue,” and “Lights And Sound,” the band decided to take a rest. But stopping the Yellowcard bus was something they decided to do on their own terms, after also creating an experimental album on 2014 “Lift A Sail.”
Vocalist Ryan Kent explained “It was not easy to do, of course. Some of the reasons are kind of personal, so it’s hard to spell out everything that went into the decision. It was a long process of coming to terms with why this needed to happen and how it was going to happen. The important thing is we got to a place where we knew this was the direction it was going to go, and we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to do it our way and plan it out step by step.”
Yellowcard’s last album was produced by Key and guitarist Ryan Mendez, with the help of Neal Avron as executive producer. All the album can be considered a review of the band’s top moments musically. This also helped Key to approach the writing process of the album from a different angle. Due to the sensation of finality made him use the album’s lyrics to work as his farewell to friends, fans, and family.
“It actually really helped me as a writer to have that focus,” Key says. “I don’t remember the last time I wrote a record with a mission ahead of time. (…) This time, I knew I wanted to try this to see if I could pull it off. Some of it is very loving and reflective, some of it is angry, some of it is ‘I don’t want to stop, but I know I have to.’ Having it be the final record really lent itself to writing that way.” Key explained.
Source: upsetmagazine.com