Alternative rockers Make Out Monday make their triumphant return with “Back to the Feeling,” a shimmering, heartfelt anthem that unites generations of sound, incorporating 80s-influenced touches alongside the emotionality of contemporary pop-punk purveyors. The result is a song that’s at once a time capsule and a revelation.
“Back to the Feeling,” a song about memory and motion, about holding on while learning to let go. The Zack Odom & Kenneth Mount production and Ted Jensen mastering are crisp, pristine, and evoke the plastic sheen of 80s pop icons like Tears For Fears, The Cars, Genesis, and Don Henley. But beyond that retro sheen, there’s the undeniable fire of Make Out Monday’s DNA, driving drums, stratosphere-scaling hooks, and emotional delivery.
Right from its opening, shimmering chord through to its cathartic chorus, “Back to the Feeling” embodies the euphoric ache of nostalgia, that fleeting rush when a song sends you spiraling into the past. It’s a love letter to what the eras meant to them, and yet it’s also a bold declaration of who Make Out Monday are now.
