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band 5 Seconds of Summer, released on 23 September 2022 through

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. It was preceded by the release of the singles "

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", " Take My Hand", " Me Myself & I", "Blender" and "Older" (featuring Sierra Deaton). The track list was revealed on 10 May 2022, while the album was announced alongside the release of "Me Myself & I" on 11 May 2022. The band are promoting the album on the

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, which officially began in

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on 11 June 2022 after the band's rescheduled tour dates ended on 21 May. "Easy for You to Say" and "Blender" were first performed live on the tour.

Background

5 Seconds of Summer spent two years working on the album, beginning after the release of '' Calm'' in 2020.

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called the lyrical content written for the album "extremely introspective". The band wrote and produced most of the album themselves, including the first two singles, "Complete Mess" and "Take My Hand".

Singles

The album's lead single, "

", was released on 2 March 2022. It reached number 85 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in April 2022. The second single, " Take My Hand", followed on 1 April 2022, and charted at number 72 on the

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. Third single " Me Myself & I" was released alongside the album announcement on 11 May 2022. It peaked at number 90 on the

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. The fourth single "Blender" was released with no prior announcement on 13 July 2022, after the band had begun performing it live on the ''Take My Hand'' tour. The fifth single "Older" (featuring Sierra Deaton) was released on 7 September 2022, after the band released a snippet of Hemmings singing "Older" on their social media pages the previous day; however, it was not announced the song would be released the next day. A video of the song, featuring an end-of-the-world scenario, was released on 18 October 2022.

Critical reception

Matt Collar of

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gave the album a 4 out of 5 stars and wrote that "much of the album brings to mind

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's distinctive brand of atmospheric pop -- songs shot through with a yearning, after-hours regret and spiritual modern-rock uplift". He praised the songs "

", "Me Myself & I", "Take My Hand", and "Bad Omens". '' Clash'' called the album 5 Seconds of Summer's "most cohesive and impressive work to date". The album debuted at number two on the

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with 48,000

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sold in its first week in the US, including 36,000 in pure album sales.

Track listing

Notes * "Complete Mess", "Carousel", "Haze", "Blender", and "Tears!" are stylized in

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Personnel

5 Seconds of Summer *

– guitar, lead vocals (tracks 1–8, 10–16, 18), keyboards (tracks 1–6, 8, 10–13, 15–19), background vocals (tracks 1–6, 8–15, 17–19), producer (track 8), instrumentation (tracks 5, 8),

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(tracks 5, 8) * Michael Clifford – guitar (tracks 1–2, 4–19), lead vocals (tracks 1–2, 10, 12–13, 15, 17–18), keyboards (tracks 1–6, 8, 10–13, 15–19), background vocals (tracks 1–6, 8–19), producer (tracks 1–2, 5–8, 12–15, 17–18), instrumentation (tracks 1–2, 5–8, 12, 14–15, 17–18), programmer (tracks 1–2, 5–8, 12–15, 17–18), vocal producer (track 4) *

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– bass guitar, lead vocals (tracks 1, 6, 8–10, 13, 15, 18), guitar (track 11), keyboards (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 1–6, 8–19), producer (track 8), instrumentation (track 8), programmer (track 8) *

Ashton Irwin Ashton Fletcher Irwin (born 7 July 1994) is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of the pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. Since 2014, 5 Seconds of Summer have sold more than 10 million albums, sold over 2 million concert tickets ...

– drums, lead vocals (tracks 8–9, 11, 19), keyboards (tracks 1–6, 8–13, 15–19), background vocals (tracks 1–6, 8–19), producer (track 8), instrumentation (track 8), programmer (track 8) Additional musicians *

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– background vocals (track 3) * Colin "Doc" Brittain – keyboards (track 9) * Sierra Deaton – background vocals (track 7) *

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– guitar (track 3),

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(tracks 3–4) * Elijah Noll – lead vocals (track 19) * Michael Pollack – keyboards (track 7) * Jacob Scesney – saxophone (track 10) * Sly – keyboards (track 16) * Mark Schick – guitar (track 3) * Peter Thomas – keyboards (track 10), background vocals (track 10) Technical personnel *

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–

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(tracks 1, 5–6) * Courtney Ballard – engineer (track 2) *

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– producer (track 4) * Chris Bennion – assistant mix engineer (track 2) * Michael Bono – engineer (track 11) * Bryce Bordone – assistant mixer (tracks 4, 16) * Colin "Doc" Brittain – producer (tracks 9, 19), instrumentation (tracks 9, 19), programmer (tracks 9, 19), vocal producer (tracks 9, 19) * Zander Caruso – additional production (tracks 6–7), instrumentation (track 7), programmer (track 7), additional programmer (track 17), drum programmer (tracks 15, 17) * Lionel Crasta – engineer (tracks 3–4), vocal producer (tracks 3–4) * Tommy Dietrick – engineer * Jason Evigan – producer (tracks 3–4), drum programmer (tracks 3–4), vocal producer (track 3) * Rafael Fadul – engineer (tracks 3–4) *

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– producer (tracks 11–12), instrumentation (track 11), programmer (track 11) * Michael Freeman – engineer (tracks 8, 12, 15, 17, 19) *

Chris Gehringer Chris Gehringer (born May 27, 1962) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered recordings such as Gwen Stefani's '' Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'' (2004), Rihanna's '' Loud'' (2010), Lady Gaga's '' Born This Way'' (2011) and Drake' ...

– engineer (tracks 1–19) *

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– engineer (tracks 4, 16) * Eli Heisler – assistant mixer (track 7) * Cameron Hogan – engineer (tracks 3–4) * Wylie Hopkins – producer (track 13), instrumentation (track 13), programmer (track 13) * Andy Inadomi – engineer (tracks 7, 15) * Chris Kasych – engineer (tracks 2, 4–6, 8, 12–14) * James Krausse – engineer (track 2) *

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– engineer (track 7) * Kevin McCombs – engineer (track 9, 19), additional production (tracks 9, 19) * Dylan McLean – engineer (tracks 11–12) * Jacob Munk – engineer (tracks 1–2, 6, 18–19) *

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– producer (track 4) * Tim Nelson – additional production (track 1) * Chris "Tek" O'Ryan – vocal producer (track 1) * Matthew Pauling – producer (track 8), engineer (tracks 2–6, 8, 10, 15–16), instrumentation (track 8), programmer (track 8), vocal producer (track 6) * Jackson Rau – engineer (tracks 3–4) * Scott Skrzynski – assistant mixer (tracks 1, 5–6) * Tyler Spry – additional production (tracks 2, 18) * Sly – producer (track 16), engineer (track 16), instrumentation (track 16), programmer (track 16) *

Spike Stent Mark "Spike" Stent (born 3 August 1965) is an English record producer and mixing engineer who has worked with many international artists including Madonna, Marshmello, U2, Beyoncé, Björk, Depeche Mode, Echo & The Bunnymen, Grimes, Ed Sh ...

– engineer (tracks 2–3, 9–11, 13–14, 18) * Scott Stewart – engineer (tracks 11–12) * Peter Thomas – producer (track 10), engineer (track 10), drum programmer (track 10) * Josh Thornberry – engineer (tracks 11–12) * Jake Torrey – additional production (track 10) * Matt Wolach – assistant mixer (tracks 2–3, 9–11, 13–14, 18) *

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– producer (track 16), engineer (track 16), instrumentation (track 16), programmer (track 16)

Charts

Release history

Notes

References

{{5 Seconds of Summer 2022 albums Albums produced by Jason Evigan Albums produced by Jon Bellion BMG Rights Management albums 5 Seconds of Summer albums