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On April 6, 30 Seconds to Mars released their fifth album titled “America.” This is their first album to be released in five years.
30 Seconds to Mars formed in 1998, but their debut album didn’t come out until 2002 with their self-titled album. The band consists of Jared Leto (lead vocals), Shannon Leto (percussion) and Tomo Miličević (lead guitar). They have been around for the past 20 years and have never failed to amaze people, proof of that feat being found in their 173 award nominations and their impressive 82 award wins, including in 2008 they won Breakthrough Artist-International. Then in 2014 they won Artist of the Year and Best Online Performance. And now in 2018 they won tour of the year for their tour with Muse and PVRIS. They also won song of the year for their song “Walk On Water” from “America.
Their debut album was slow selling at first but ended up very successful with 2 million copies sold worldwide. After this they continued to sell more and more. Just with their first for albums they sold 10 million copies worldwide. Their recent album earned them the Highest Charting Album Ever on Billboard 200.
My personal favorite from their newest album is “Rescue Me.” Its slow rock beginning makes it intriguing as it begins to get more upbeat. Like most songs made these days, it uses a bit of techno and electric guitar. If I had to chose my least favorite it would have to be “Dawn Will Rise.” Though it is a good song, it has too much autotune for my liking; everyone uses autotune a little bit, but that song has too much.
I really enjoyed the whole album. Some songs were just a bit weird, but overall it was a very well put together album. You can really hear the love and hard work they put into it, though I do have to say though it may not be everyone’s cup of tea. With its modern take on rock mixed with some pop styles it definitely isn’t for everyone.
I feel like in their attempt to make it more modern they lost a little bit of what they started out as. My personal opinion is that some of their older albums are better, such as “A Beautiful Lie.” Their older albums have more of the American rock feel, at least of what it used to be.
Talking about the album you can really tell that Jared Leto enjoyed writing and recording it. In an interview with “The Rolling Stone” he talks about many different aspects of the album, he said, “For a long time, I wanted to make an album about the American dream and America as a concept– and as I was halfway through, I thought ‘I guess I’m making that album now.’”
I would recommend listening to their newest album. If you love rock/pop music you will be sure to love them. After listening to “America” you will want to listen to all of their music if you haven’t already. I give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars. For me, even though it was really good, it’s not an album that I’m going to keep playing on repeat. As I said before, I prefer their older albums, but compared to new music coming out now “America” is definitely one of the best.
