Paramore - Re: This Is Why (2024) Hi-Res

Paramore take a boldly inventive approach to the remix album on 2023's Re: This Is Why. A companion album to their Billboard 200 number two-charting seventh studio album, This Is Why, Re: This Is Why features all of the songs from the original, either remixed in the classic sense or re-recorded and reworked by other artists. This is the band's first album of the remix kind and nicely straddles the line between the dance traditions from which remix culture was born and the pop covers trend that emerged with the rise of social-media platforms. In this spirit, Paramore picked bands and artists who influenced them, or who were in turn influenced by them, or who they simply really like. Of the former group, British indie rock outfit Foals take on the title track, remixing the flagship single into a atmospheric club anthem that brings out even more of the '60s-style psychedelia at the core of the song. Yet more dance-oriented is DJ Zane Lowe's remix of "Running Out of Time." Lowe is a longtime supporter of the band, having interviewed them in-depth several times, and his spiraling, '80s-house-infused remix feels particularly celebratory. Of the re-recorded tracks, we get a fittingly post-punk version of "C’est Comme Ça" from England's Wet Leg that evokes their own "Chaise Longue." Equally inspired is Claud's intimately rendered acoustic take on the ballad "Crave" that brings out all of the song's yearning qualities. Also included is a previously unreleased demo of "Sanity," a song Paramore recorded during the This Is Why sessions but left off the album. That track, as with much of Re: This Is Why, is as artfully hooky and emotionally compelling as anything on the original album.