Taking One For The Team

Vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Taking One for the Team, Simple Plan's fifth full-length and most ambitious album so far, offering hard-hitting punk-fueled tracks alongside songs that delve into everything from reggae to delicate acoustic balladry. Longtime fans can rest assured that Taking One for the Team is packed with plenty of quintessential Simple Plan tracks, including "Boom." The album starts out full-throttle with the brutal guitar and furious drumming of "Opinion Overload." On "I Refuse," Simple Plan mine inspiration from punk/hardcore acts like Rise Against and Good Riddance, ultimately delivering the only punk anthem in recent memory to feature an elegant piano interlude. "We grew up on that kind of music; it's in our DNA- we'll always need that energy and those super-fast, in-your-face songs that people love about this band," says bass player David Desrosiers of tracks like "I Refuse" or "Nostalgic". "I can already imagine us playing those songs live and seeing the crowd go crazy, singing along to every word."