Journey have launched “You Acquired the Better of Me,” the newest single from their upcoming album Freedom.
The music opens with some otherworldly synths earlier than breaking right into a driving guitar line, backed by a pulsating beat. Vocal harmonies additionally spotlight the energetic monitor, nevertheless it’s Neal Schon who shines brightest. Across the 2:45 mark, the guitarist delivers an incendiary solo, and continues wailing away throughout the refrain’ chorus.
Lyrically, “You Acquired the Better of Me” focusses on love, with its story informed from the attitude of somebody who has tried and failed with romance prior to now. The opening verse reads: “For thus lengthy I puzzled the place my coronary heart would lead me / Could not appear to search out somebody who’d let me be me / Ended up in conditions I might remorse / I selected to vary my reckless methods as an alternative.”
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With the discharge of “You Acquired the Better of Me,” Journey additionally introduced that Freedom — their sixteenth studio album and first in additional than a decade — will arrive July 8. The band’s final LP, Eclipse, got here out in 2011. “You Acquired the Better of Me” is the second music launched from the upcoming album, following “The Manner We Used to Be,” which got here out final June.
Final month, keyboardist Jonathan Cain famous to UCR that Journey “step out somewhat bit” on the brand new LP. “Lots of the jams had been form of free-form,” he defined. “So Neal was working exhausting and I used to be there for him, and we labored collectively by the entire thing. The songs got here from every kind of locations, creatively. However I believe it is only a mixture of every little thing Journey has been. To get again into Journey was actually enjoyable.”
Journey is at present out on their Freedom 2022 North American tour. The trek, which options Toto because the opening act, began Feb. 22 in Pittsburgh and is at present scheduled to run by Aug. 8.
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