This Is Why Alternative I Just Called To Say

I Just Called To Say I Love You - John Prine featuring The Secret Sisters

the record feels like walking into Stars’ familiar teenage bedroom: it’s brimming with gothic

The first sound we hear on good kid

Sometimes it’s been her own progressive country albums

This Is Why Alternative I Just Called To SayParamore have mastered the art of maturing gracefully. Beginning with the bands self titled 2013 album, they have slowly peeled themselves away from the mainstream emo pop punk world they once dominated (all while dealing with constant lineup shake ups). In the process, Paramore have found themselves attached to a different kind of musical nostalgia, zeroing in on the slick sounds of Eighties rock and New Wave without so much as a hint of corny