Paramore – Riot! (Vinyl LP)

After gaining hordes of enthusiastic fans worldwide with their debut All We Know Is Falling, Paramore is poised to break through to new heights with their newest offering Riot!: Their sophomore record, produced by David Bendeth (Hawthorne Heights, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus). Lead single “Misery Business,” in addition to other album tracks, deals with issues of shame and self-discovery as lead-singer Hayley Williams discusses. “I’ve been ashamed, she says. I’ve felt hate, jealously, lust, fear, pride, self-consciousness… You hear a lot of this on the record. I feel like I need to talk about it. It is not uncommon for Paramore to expose their emotions and allow fans to have such an intimate look into their lives.”

While recording the track Born For This, the band invited a handful of fans into the studio to sing back-up vocals on the song. Fans have responded by voting Paramore as the #1 Best New Band in Kerrang! magazine, beating out Panic! at the Disco among others, and Alternative Press magazine has named Riot! as one of their most anticipated releases of 2007. Brothers Josh and Zac Farro (on guitar and drums respectively), as well as Jeremy Davis (on bass), round out the enthusiastic Franklin, TN based quartet.