evolved as musicains regardless of any distances between them and are just able to make everything work out based on the true musical chemistry that bonds them, “It’s pretty easy to stay on course with these guys.”
images them all feel, they decided that it worked with what they were doing with Sunnyland. Brooks mentions that, “the idea [of Sunnyland] is that it’s turning everything to sound more positive more than it’s supposed to make you feel dark.” Brooks attempts to think about As well as their line-up Mayday Parade how it comes out sort of ironic with the has kept a few things from their first darker imagery paired with the bright record attached to their music and positive outlook that Sunnyland brings as design world, included the very a record, but the imagery still made them specifically styled faceless man. While all feel a particular way that resonated he originally featured in the earlier design with the record. works, he started being phased out of being on the front cover once Monsters “Like we always do, we are going to In the Closet was released. “I think it’s tour our asses off,” Brooks laugh at his important to have a thing to reconize comment when asked what to expect and the Faceless Man is such a good now that the record is released. He character. He doesn’t really symbolize continued speaking passionately about all of our artwork but with some of the the subject, “We had a lot of time at specific concepts that we did I think he is home, we spent a lot of time creating this an interesting character ... He’s just kind record and it would be a totally diffrent of the face that represents our band and record if we didn’t take that bunch of what we’ve set up,” Brooks also goes on time. So with all of this hard work, we got to comment that even previously in Black to head out.” Lines the Faceless Man never made the cover, but he still is an important symbol for them coming from the beginning of it all. Even further with the umbrella that the Faceless Man carried on the cover of Lesson in Romantics and how the umbrella also had it’s own little symbolizm that the band can now use as things such as their merchandise and posters, even if it is not directly plastered on their cover art. With Sunnyland, they have gone with a picturial sort of cover that came about when the band was touring through Atlanta. There was a day where they were out in the woods and ended up taking a bunch of images, really enjoying the look of it all. They ended up going back through Georgia and took another photo while out there. Particularly enjoying the colour scheme and how the
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