Don't Panic (album)

Don't Panic is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock band All Time Low, released on October 9, 2012 through Hopeless Records, which was their label originally before Dirty Work. All the songs were written by frontman Alex Gaskarth and Mike Green, with "Outlines" co-written by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. Don't Panic sees All Time Low further evolving their sound while taking influence from each of their previous releases. The album debuted at No. 6 on the US Billboard 200 with 48,000 first week sales, making it the band's third top 10 debut in a row. It peaked at No. 9 in the UK and in the top 20 in Australia and Canada. All Time Low has continued touring year-long in support of Don't Panic. The album received critical acclaim,^[7] with critics praising Gaskarth's song writing and the albums sound as a whole.

Background

The band's previous album, Dirty Work (2011) was released by major label Interscope; the band announced in May 2012 that they had split from the label, before releasing a new song titled "The Reckless and the Brave" as a free digital download on June 1. On July 3, All Time Low confirmed that they had resigned to their home indie label Hopeless. On August 24, a new song titled "For Baltimore," an ode to the band's hometown, was released through Alternative Press. In between touring year-long, the band visited the studio to write and record the album.

"With this record, a big part of the process was finding what made our band special on each of our past records," says singer/guitarist Alex Gaskarth in an issued press release. "This time around, rather than taking influence from anything we were listening to at the time-or anything we want to touch on generationally-the goal was to make an album that we felt reflected the best aspects of our previous releases."^[8]

A trailer for the album was released on August 28. The trailer contained previews of the songs "For Baltimore", "Outlines" and "Somewhere in Neverland".^[9] "Somewhere in Neverland" was released as the third single on September 18, 2012.

On October 2, a stream of the full album was uploaded to YouTube. Track 12, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Booze" was referred to as "Let Me Be Me" on the online streamed video of the album.