Journey have launched “You Acquired the Better of Me,” the newest single from their upcoming album Freedom.
The tune 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 observe, but it surely’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 instructed from the attitude of somebody who has tried and failed with romance previously. 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 would 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 tune launched from the upcoming album, following “The Approach We Used to Be,” which got here out final June.
Final month, keyboardist Jonathan Cain famous to UCR that Journey “step out just a little bit” on the brand new LP. “Quite a lot of the jams have been type of free-form,” he defined. “So Neal was working arduous and I used to be there for him, and we labored collectively by the entire thing. The songs got here from all types of locations, creatively. However I feel it is only a mixture of every thing Journey has been. To get again into Journey was actually enjoyable.”
Journey is presently out on their Freedom 2022 North American tour. The trek, which options Toto because the opening act, began Feb. 22 in Pittsburgh and is presently scheduled to run by Aug. 8.
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Journey have been by their share of incarnations over the previous 4 a long time.
