Homesick by A Day to Remember
Homesick is the third studio album by A Day to Remember, released on February 2, 2009 in Europe and February 3, 2009 in the United States. The album charted at number 21 on the Billboard 200, number 2 on Hard Rock Albums, number 1 on Top Independent Albums, and sold 22,000 copies in its first week. It was produced by Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory and mixed by Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage. The album has sold 215,000 copies to date in the United States. It has come to be regarded as the band's breakthrough album. It was the band's final album featuring Tom Denney on guitar.
A Day to Remember's third album finds the band perfecting an aggressive hybrid of dense metalcore and spring-loaded pop-punk. This leads to electric songs in which buoyant verses pair with drilling guitar breakdowns ("NJ Legion Iced Tea") and lightning-fast rhythms interweave with midtempo harmonies (the rapid-fire title track). Anchoring these sonic contrasts is frontman Jeremy McKinnon, who veers from feral growls and yearning pleas at the drop of a hat, especially on anthems like "The Downfall of Us All" and "Mr. Highway's Thinking About the End".
