The Used - The Canyon (2017)

Post-hardcore icons The Used have just announced the release of their seventh studio album, the 17-track, double disc The Canyon, which will serve as the successor to 2014's Imaginary Enemy. The Ross Robinson-produced record will come out on Oct. 27 through Hopeless Records.

The album will be the first without longtime guitarist Quinn Allman, who left the group in late 2015 and was replaced by Saosin six-stringer Justin Shekoski. Recent years have seen The Used drift away from the more aggressive elements that made up their early style and "Over and Over Again" marks a further departure from this with a heavily pop-leaning sound. Jangling guitars and a catchy drum beat reminiscent of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" make this an instantly memorable offering, a notion that is increased tenfold after watching this peculiar video.

“I’ve learned as an artist that a great idea is such a gift. If I don’t stop whatever it is I’m doing, even if while driving, if I don’t pull over at that moment, then maybe I didn’t deserve the idea to begin with. I learned to respect and worship the ideas in that way, that they are and will always be something sacred. Stopping in that moment was a brand new approach for us during this process," commented frontman Bert McCracken about the forthcoming record.

Tracklist:
1. For You (04:35)
2. Cold War Telescreen (04:41)
3. Broken Windows (04:45)
4. Rise Up Lights (03:28)
5. Vertigo Cave (04:25)
6. Pretty Picture (04:11)
7. Funeral Post (05:19)
8. Upper Falls (05:34)
9. The Divine Absence (This Is Water) (05:00)
10. Selfies In Aleppo (04:33)
11. Moving The Mountain (Odysseus Surrenders) (04:16)
12. Over And Over Again (05:14)
13. The Quiet War (04:11)
14. Moon-Dream (04:45)
15. The Nexus (04:41)
16. About You (No Songs Left To Sing) (03:47)
17. The Mouth Of The Canyon (05:33)