Paramore – ‘This is Why’
Life comes at you fast, doesn’t it? One moment, you’re fifteen, what feels like near limitless opportunities have just opened up to you and youthful invincibility has taken hold. The next, you’re thirty, and there’s a weariness tangled in your bones like you’ve walked through cobwebs. For Hayley Williams and her ever lovable rogue’s gallery, those cobwebs have shaped the band’s direction through their quiet hiatus after 2017’s ‘After Laughter’ as they stepped away from the band altogether to work on solo projects and escape the shadow of the juggernaut that Paramore has become (and all the baggage it comes with). Nearly twenty years on from releasing some of the most seminal pop-punk of the 2000’s, the trio are emerging from global catastrophe to put their melancholic disposition into word...
