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Goo Goo Dolls have released “You Are The Answer,” the second song off of Chaos in Bloom, the band’s 13th studio album set to arrive on August 12th via Warner Records. “You Are The Answer” is a melodic ballad that explores the experience of devoted love during times of difficulty.
“You Are The Answer” comes on the heels of “Yeah I Like You,” Goo Goo Dolls’ first single from Chaos in Bloom that arrived earlier this summer. Marking the first album of their career to be produced by frontman John Rzeznik, Chaos in Bloom finds the band continuing to evolve just as they have for nearly four decades together. Consisting of 10 tracks, the project is an album of biting sarcasm, stadium-ready choruses, and the type of spear-sharp songwriting that’s led them to becoming one of the most influential alternative rock groups of all time.
While Chaos in Bloom isn’t necessarily an album borne out by the pandemic, many of the tracks reflect on all of the things in daily life that became amplified while everyone was isolated from one another and sequestered at home. To record the album, Rzeznik and Takac retreated to Dreamland Studios just outside Woodstock, New York during the pandemic. An environment as remote as it is rich with historic rock music roots, the location proved to be the perfect setting for clearing the noise and creating such a record, which carries a true live quality that the band captured by blending vintage instruments and gear with new-age recording processes and techniques.
For the first time since 2019, the band will embark on a sprawling nationwide tour this summer. Set to kick off on July 15th at Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater in Nampa, ID, the nationwide tour will see the band performing songs from Chaos in Bloom for the first time ever along with other tracks from their complete discography at iconic outdoor venues spanning North America, including Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY. Blue October will provide support for the entire run. Goo Goo Dolls will be partnering with the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation for the tour, a nonprofit founded in 2002 by Ali and Joe Torre to provide healing and education services to youth who have been traumatized by exposure to violence including domestic violence, child abuse, teen dating abuse, and sexual assault to help break the cycle of violence.
Goo Goo Dolls’ older songs have actually been seeing this incredible resurgence the past two years too. “Iris” is on track to cross one billion streams on Spotify soon, was recently been covered by Phoebe Bridgers & Maggie Rodgers. The song has been discovered by younger generations on TikTok, which has helped the song reach 7x Platinum status this year and re-enter multiple Billboard charts for the first time in years.
