Wake Up, Sunshine

Wake Up, Sunshine is the eighth studio album by American rock band All Time Low. It was released on April 3, 2020, and is their second release with Fueled by Ramen following Last Young Renegade in 2017. The album's fourth and final single "Monsters" 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 Zakk Cervini and Andrew Goldstein. A majority of the writing and recording process took place in August 2019 at a mansion located in Palm Desert, California, 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 Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat rented a cabin with Cervini and Goldstein in Big Bear Lake, California.

Composition

The album's overall sound has been described as pop-punk by critics.

Reception

The album received positive reviews from critics, 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 Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy, Lit, and Blink-182, 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

Alex Gaskarth – 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
Andrew Goldstein – co-producer
Phil Gornell – co-producer, engineering
Dan Swank – co-producer, engineering
Neal Avron – mixing
Andrew Cook – artwork
Ashley Osborn – photography
Ted Jensen – mastering
Nik Trekov – editing
Charts