Journey have launched “You Received 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, however it’s Neal Schon who shines brightest. Across the 2:45 mark, the guitarist delivers an incendiary solo, and continues wailing away in the course of the refrain’ chorus.
Lyrically, “You Received the Better of Me” focusses on love, with its story advised from the attitude of somebody who has tried and failed with romance up to now. The opening verse reads: “For therefore lengthy I questioned 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.”
Take heed to “You Received the Better of Me” under.
With the discharge of “You Received 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 Received 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 somewhat bit” on the brand new LP. “Loads of the jams had been sort of free-form,” he defined. “So Neal was working onerous and I used to be there for him, and we labored collectively via the entire thing. The songs got here from every kind of locations, creatively. However I believe it is only a mixture of every part 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 via Aug. 8.
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Journey have been via their share of incarnations over the previous 4 many years.
