After five years of radio silence, Paramore returns more popular than ever before — and they’ve forged an album to match their now-supersized status, refurbishing fear and fury for arena stages.
This Is Why, the band’s sixth album, is a stark and scintillating return for a trio that over the last 15 years has subscribed to the James Brown adage: “Kill ‘em and leave” — drop an album, tour it with blistering fervor and then disappear periods that, to their devout fans, feels like a lifetime.
Though there’s a method to Paramore’s caginess. Each time they re-emerge, the band’s legacy balloons — perhaps no act has benefited more from
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