By Katie Servas – Staff Reporter

Start wallowing to the new album “Tell Me That It’s Over” by Wallows.

This album is the alternative band’s second studio album that was released earlier this year. The album leans farther into their alternative style and brings new bouncy and bright tracks to its audiences. 

The album expresses insecurity, relationships with their highs and lows, while introducing dynamic sounds to set the tone of the instrumental range of the entire album. The music includes many keyboard elements as well as different textures that produce something unlike one has heard before. 

The first single released, “I Don’t Want to Talk,” includes a joyride type of feeling along with some featured harmonica throughout the entire piece. The opening lyric sets the tone of the song by expressing when someone’s significant other or trusted friend leaves for an extended period of time, and how one starts to reflect on themselves after they leave. They then realize that person gave them confidence and without them, their insecurities about themself show. 

The lyrics explain how they would rather move on without discussing the situation and their choice of wanting to avoid conflict and prevent feeling like a burden or making a problem out of something even though it’s nothing. The song leads to the insecurity of seeing a stranger with one’s significant other and that feeling of intimidation from that stranger who’s very confident in themselves. The song concludes with bottling up all the jealousy and insecurity knowing that these issues aren’t really problems within the relationship and that they were just in their head.

Wallows has started their “Tell Me That It’s Over” tour over the past few months. The tour is worldwide from the United States, to Canada, Europe, and Australia. The tour includes performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. This event draws many people from around the world and is one of the largest festivals that occurs yearly. This is where many bands and artists come and display their works and talents for a large audience which allow for exposure to people who may not have been interested in, or aware of the artist. 

There are many other honorable mentions such as, “Hard to Believe,” “Especially You,” and “That’s What I Get.” These pieces feature many instruments such as drums, keyboard, strings, guitar and bass. These songs describe feelings of insecurity and reliance on others. Overall, this is an album that may seem skeptical to the average person and may lead them to believe that the music is a bit of an acquired taste, but this album has elements that are unlike today’s Billboard Top 100 music. 

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars