Youngblood

I want to get us started off by nothing that this is officially my favorite newly-released album at this particular moment. Now this comes after my glorious experience at 5 Seconds Of Summer’s live set at the Toyota Pavillion in Irving a few weeks back, so the way I feel about this record now is absolutely not what my first impressions were. This took some time, thought, and a few dozen (hundred) listens to really get a sense of the personality of this album. So without any further ado, let’s unpack the wonder that is Youngblood.

Youngblood is the third studio album by Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer. It was released on June 15th, 2018 and it was named by one of the songs on the album. Luke Hemmings, one of the band members, said: Youngblood represented the whole album we felt. It’s the band’s favorite song. It felt the most important as a song. Youngblood as a term and a phrase summed up how we felt making it." Making of this album made band members close, says Michael Clifford: "I struggled to see the end vision, like what the album was meant to look like. Making Youngblood was probably the most important thing that 5 Seconds of Summer have had to do. The connection that we had to have between us four in order to finish something like this that was a difficult album to make for a ton of reasons. The thing that I’ll remember forever is the close bond that we had together, the bond that we needed to have together in order to get to the finished product. "In the US, 5 Seconds of Summer became the first Australian deed to achieve three chart-toppers on the Billboard 200 chart and the album became their third number one album in their country.