The exciting news was picked up by the band’s fans, who noticed an Instagram post from vocal coach Valerie Morehouse.
In her post about what she’s been up to recently, she revealed that, “@5sos have a new music coming!!”
She also mentioned Ashton Irwin‘s debut solo album Superbloom, which was released in October.
This new 5SOS music news comes just nine months after releasing their last album CALM, which came out at the beginning of quarantine. It also comes a couple weeks after their big win at the ARIA Awards!
If you missed it, 5 Seconds of Summer is nominated for THREE 2020 Just Jared Jr Fan Awards- Favorite Music Group/Duo, Favorite Song of 2020 for “Teeth” and Favorite Album of 2020 for CALM. Cast your votes here!!
This marks the third time the guys have won this fan-voted award, also marking a record for the most wins in this category.
5SOS first won in 2014 for “She Looks So Perfect,” then again in 2018 for “Youngblood.”
“TEETH has been voted song of the year at the ARIA awards. We learnt so much about ourselves on the record CALM and teeth is a tribute to high energy rock shows that we all love and miss dearly,” the guys wrote in a note on Twitter.
“When you think of the song teeth, please think of going to the gig, please think of enjoying music live and loud. Thank you to our fans and family! Love always C, A, L, M.”
If you didn’t know, the ARIA Awards are held annually in Australia and are like the Australian equivalent of the Grammys!
The guys – Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, Luke Hemmings and Ashton Irwin – appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and dished how they made their “Wildflower” music video while in quarantine separately.
“Our creative director would take a green screen to a house, would disinfect it all, and then would put it at the front, and we would take it and put it up. If you’re with someone in the house, then they would film all the parts. He had a list of things to do, and then he would come back, disinfect the green screen and take it to the next band member’s house,” Luke shared.
Ashton also showed that he still has his “Late Late” tattoo that he got the last time the guys were on the show. The band also performed their song “Wildflower”, which you can see right here!
5 Seconds of Summer on ‘The Late Late Show’
Click inside to watch the “Wildflower”music video…More Here! »
The 12-track project includes their previously released songs “Wildflower,” “Easier,” “Teeth,” “No Shame,” and “Old Me.”
“The album title came from the first letters of all of our names,” Luke told the New York Post. “And it’s also a nod to our fans that coined us that name in our early days. They’ve been using that acronym for a long time. It kind of just sums up [that] we’re a little bit older and a little bit wiser . . . But it was named before this went down, obviously.”
“We were gonna go all over the world, do all these kinds of things, and then we just couldn’t,” he added. “But honestly, we wanted the album out really badly. We were waiting a long time for it to come out.”
Luke has also called the album “a journey through a young man’s life, for better or for worse.” Calum adds, “These new songs feel like something we could keep playing for the next 10 years, or even beyond that. It feels like our first album—like we finally found what we’d been trying to achieve since the beginning of this band.”
Listen to 5 Seconds of Summer‘s CALM below! You can also download it on Apple Music.
“[The video] captures the story of how it all began, the twists and turns in between, and where we are today,” the group wrote on their Instagram.
The feature includes clips of the bands through the years and references some of their most pivotal moments including their tour with One Direction, their first album and their AMA win. The guys even recruited young actors to portray themselves in their early years!