It's difficult to believe that 'Tidal Wave' is Taking Back Sunday's seventh album; it's not only the follow-up to 2014's 'Happiness Is' but also marks the first time the group have ever made three consecutive albums with the same lineup and the band brought back producer Mike Sapone & mixer Claudius Mittendorfer, who both worked on 'Happiness Is'. 'Tidal Wave' also marks the first time that Taking Back Sunday wrote in the studio as they recorded and having that type of fluidity when it came to the songwriting also lent itself to heightened collaboration and creativity throughout the process