Yellowcard Return After Nearly A Decade With Better Days Album & Two Singles

Yellowcard have announced their comeback album Better Days, out this October, featuring Travis Barker on drums and production duties. Oh, and there’s two tracks already out in the wild.

Yellowcard are officially back with Better Days, their first full-length album in nearly a decade, set for release on October 10 via Better Noise Music.

To mark the announcement, the band have dropped two new singles — the title track ‘Better Days’ and the emotionally charged ‘honestly i’. Produced and executive produced by blink-182’s Travis Barker, who also played drums across the entire record, Better Days signals a major creative reset for the band.

The lead single ‘Better Days’ arrives with a music video directed by Jordan Phoenix, showing the band dressed as iconic ‘80s film characters performing inside a throwback video store. Vocalist William Ryan Key says the video captures the spirit of where Yellowcard are now: “We are focused on this chapter of our career being about happiness. This is the most fun we’ve had making a video in 20 years and we hope everyone has a smile on their face when they watch it.”

You can check out the music video for ‘Better Days’ below:

After wrapping things up in 2017, Yellowcard reunited in 2022 and hit the ground running. Their Ocean Avenue 20th anniversary tour drew worldwide attention (including a recent run of Aussie shows) and marked a full-circle moment for the band to reconcile both personally and creatively.

On Better Days, that reconciliation is evident. The band took their time with the writing process, bringing in outside voices. Guitarist Ryan Mendez invited longtime friend Nick Long into the sessions, which ultimately led to Travis Barker joining the project. What followed was a deeply collaborative process that frontman Ryan Key describes as transformative. “I started the record as one version of myself and came out the other side changed. I went in knowing I needed help. I came out of it writing songs like I was 19 again.”

Yellowcard’s lineup – Key, Mendez, violinist Sean Mackin, and bassist Josh Portman – will revitalise the band’s iconic sound across the album’s ten tracks. Features include Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) on ‘Love Letters Lost’ and Avril Lavigne on ‘You Broke Me Too’, pairing legacy and evolution in equal measure.

Formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1997, Yellowcard rose to international acclaim in the early 2000s. Their breakthrough album Ocean Avenue went platinum in the US, with the title track now double platinum and their catalog boasting over one billion streams worldwide.

Better Days is available for preorder now. Yellowcard are no longer looking back, they’re stepping forward with purpose.