Maroon 5 will release their much-anticipated sophomore album, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (A&M/Octone Records) on May 22nd. The follow-up to the multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning Songs About Jane will be “sexier and stronger,” according to frontman Adam Levine, who looked to 80s icons such as Prince, Michael Jackson and Talking Heads for inspiration.
Recorded at home in Los Angeles with producers Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Eminem), Mark “Spike” Stent (Oasis, Bjork, Keane, Gwen Stefani, Marylin Manson), Mark Endert (Madonna, Fiona Apple), and Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) The album promises to be a louder take on the pop sounds of their first effort. “It’s definitely aggressive, upbeat and pounding,” says Levine.
From first single, “
Makes Me Wonder,” it is clear that Maroon 5 has once again captured all of the elements that create a universally appealing pop rock song.
Tracklisting
If I Never See Your Face Again
Little Of Your Time
Wake Up Call
Won't Go Home Without You
Nothing Lasts Forever
Makes Me Wonder
Can't Stop
Goodnight, Goodnight
Not Falling Apart
Kiwi
Better That We Break
Back At Your Door
