''Wake Up, Sunshine'' is the eighth studio album by American

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. It was released on April 3, 2020, and is their second release with

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'' in 2017. The album's fourth and final single "

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" is the highest-charting song of their career.

Background and recording

The album comes after 2017's ''Last Young Renegade''. In January 2019, the band began creating the record in drummer Rian Dawson's home studio in Nashville, Tennessee with

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. A majority of the writing and recording process took place in August 2019 at a mansion located in

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, (usually referred to by the band as the "marble mansion") that the band rented and lived in for a few months along with most of the team that worked on ''Wake Up, Sunshine.'' To finish the album, All Time Low members

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and Jack Barakat rented a cabin with Cervini and Goldstein in

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Reception

The album received critical acclaim, with some noting it as a nostalgic culmination of the band’s previous works. In a positive review, Emily Carter of ''Kerrang!'' called it "dreamy," "nostalgic," and "sentimental." AllMusic reviewer Neil Z. Yeung praised the album for paying homage to pop punk predecessors such as

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, while praising the album's blend of the band's modern style and their past pop-punk music, mentioning the presence of "catchy hooks, bright energy, and . . . the style that won All Time Low a legion of devoted scene fans."

Track listing

Personnel

;All Time Low *

– lead vocals, guitars * Jack Barakat – guitars, backing vocals * Zack Merrick – bass, backing vocals * Rian Dawson – drums, percussion ;Additional musicians * Blackbear – vocal on track 7 * The Band CAMINO – vocals on track 9 * Dan Swank - guitars, keyboards, programming, percussion ;Technical * Zakk Cervini - producer, engineering, mixing (tracks 3, 4, 6, 8-11, 13, 15) * Andrew Goldstein - co-producer * Phil Gornell - co-producer, engineering * Dan Swank - co-producer, engineering *

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- mixing (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 14) * Andrew Cook - artwork * Ashley Osborn - photography *

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- mastering * Nik Trekov - editing

Charts

References

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