Petals for Armor/Last of Paramore?

so there's this instagram called Petals For Armor whose first follower is the official Paramore instagram. Some believe the name is an imperfect anagram for Last of Paramore (Last of paremorr). It's a lot of grainy nature footage and the url in the bio links to a video of a monarch butterfly. Something seems to be up.

https://www.instagram.com/petalsforarmor/

peace god

Could be Lo! Fast Paramore! and the next album is recorder on a jetplane

Lost AF Paramore - they recorded their album in the jungle

Oh wait it's an imperfect anagram I hate that

Amoral Fret Pros

remaining hopeful it’s just hayley and taylor’s balearic techno side project

I would accept that! A while back, Hayley did a post on instagram and it was kinda like "here are just some pictures of things around my house that make me happy." One pic was houseplants, then some mirrors, then a couple of synths, then a picture of her dog..." And ever since then, I've been secretly praying for Hayley to drop a Jane Weaver-style psych pop record or something.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_n_irBNVI/?igshid=aklpij8w4x1p

January 22 is the date.

Posters popping up in NYC.

https://i.redd.it/zb9dsmxg29941.jpg

I walked by one of those posters on Sunset Blvd. today, near the Palladium.

https://hayleywilliams.lnk.to/simmer

see y'all tomorrow

So excited!

Did you notice that she referred to this as an "offering" which is also the title of My Chemical Romance's video from this weekend?

my first offering:

“SIMMER”, drops 1.22.20

see you then🌺 https://t.co/n8ApORvDIX

— hayley from Paramore 🌺 (@yelyahwilliams) January 20, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ6CZFhqgOQ

Crazy coincidence or is there something tying these together?

So who are the "friends" she referred to in that initial announcement

Probably Jack Antonoff eh

not-so-crazy coincidence xp

please don't be Jack Antonoff.

So who are the "friends" she referred to in that initial announcement

super-stealth MCR marketing....very sly

So who are the "friends" she referred to in that initial announcement

turns out: taylor york and touring paramore member joey howard

alfred to thread

lol. So it's Hayley and Taylor and [insert rotating cast member here].

possibly the most confusingly designated solo project ever but i'm very excited for what's essentially another paramore album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lSj5k2K7w0

this fucking rules

getting serious jenn wasner vibes

yeah, way lower-key than I was expecting in a nice way

I love this

petals for armor out may 8, produced by taylor york

“I’m so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project,” says Williams. “Making it was a scary, empowering experience. Some of my proudest moments as a lyricist happened while writing ‘PETALS FOR ARMOR.’ And I was able to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation. I’m in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records. This project, however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I experimented quite a bit more. I made this with some of the closest people to me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record. I like to think we all make each other better and the result is something that sounds and FEELS exactly as I’d hoped it would. Now that it’s time to put it all out there, I can finally exhale. I’m excited to let people in to experience a different side of myself that I’ve only very recently become familiar with.”

Hayley playing instruments is something I've been hoping for for a while.

I still don't know the difference between this and a new Paramore album but whatever I'm excited who cares

man this was so satisfying. nothing i expected yet exactly what i wanted

Give in.

best song i heard this year.

yes

holy shit i love this 100% but have rly lame comparisons so i wont do it

alfred to thread

― american bradass (BradNelson)

YO

https://www.theadultman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/manly-cocktails.jpg

this is fucking great

Boy, is that great. Great video, too. (Song pairs well with the new Pearl Jam ...)

I hope my daughter likes this.

I happily listened to it like 10 times in a row yesterday. m bison, what are your lame comparisons? I hear a little Kate Bush and Alanis Morissette in the vocals in various parts.

My bestie said St Vincent

good call.

Yup, this is great. I hear those Kate Bush echoes too (which seem to be everywhere the last few years), but the pulsing beat is a new and welcome thing.

i like this better than any st vincent i've ever heard

m bison, what are your lame comparisons? I hear a little Kate Bush and Alanis Morissette in the vocals in various parts.

― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, January 24, 2020 11:50 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

kate bush! and latter-era radiohead.

oh and the breathy part reminds me of tour de france by kraftwerk

I love this

xp: I had been thinking Meredith Monk, but Tour de France is probably closer.

Also the one-note humming sample reminds me of the "ha ha ha ha" from O Superman. See also the harmonized vocals on "con-trol" and "eyes closed" in the chorus, although Hayley isn't nearly as vocodored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAKKNncsf20

little coda for the video. more horror imagery. i'm... very happy

Cool!

is everybody ready for another new song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3WJjuG1yNQ

this is even more low-key and Radiohead-y!

"now that i finally wanna live / the ones i love are dying"

Holy shit, Hayley! Can't wait to listen to this.

(the "holy shit" because I'm surprised that she released another one this soon)

i wasn't as big on "simmer" as the rest of you but this one is really nice

Both fantastic. This one is reminiscent of Radiohead, but also, like, a creepy understated Tori Amos b-side (“Honey”, maybe?).

Not a cover of the Living Colour song to my immense disappointment.

Another great song and video. She's a very good music video actor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaBRW-Dj70

think this album is getting released in chunks. first one seems like it'll be out friday

Pre-orders out tomorrow and here's the album cover.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQD4kywWAAI0O4R?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

i believe we're getting two new songs tomorrow, "cinnamon" and "creepin'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x7jORhJntM

seems like the first five tracks are on streaming services rn

(actually just apple music so far?)

These videos and songs have all been incredible so far.

ok now it's filtered to spotify

"creepin'" is so awesome

and "sudden desire" is the best one yet

cinnamon is kinda roisiny

"cinnnamon" is also kinda tune-yardsy

"creepin" rules though

This is the most ILM record ever (even after just 5 songs).

The next song released will be about how much she loves balloons.

"Cinnamon" is not bad.

lol xp

Not feeling "Cinnamon." Agree w/the Tune-Yards comment. "Creepin'" is better but the total batch here hasn't been as exciting to me as I expected given how big of a Paramore fan I've been since Riot!

Huh, I'm almost the opposite, in that I love all of this new stuff. But then, I've only really gotten into the last couple of Paramore records. Regardless, I love how these new songs *sound*. Who produced, is that all Taylor York?

plagiarism accusations on Twitter

as her legacy is echoed on repeat. #educationalhttps://t.co/G4A1lyXRkr@yelyahwilliams vs @_iamamiwhoami_ | @ionnalee pic.twitter.com/qapEUGXt66

— iambountyfan (@iambountyfan) February 7, 2020

Who produced, is that all Taylor York?

"Simmer" for sure

it's all taylor york

I need to discuss it with him over Negronis.

The drummer is great, who is it?

aaron steel apparently

i was trying to get sound off that but is the claim just about the images in the video?

(I don't mean 'just about', that's all pretty blatant; wonder who directed it?)

I'm on board for everything but Sudden Desire. "simmer" likely to be a top ten end of year contender.

https://www.stereogum.com/2075640/hayley-williams-album-features-a-song-with-boygenius/news/

aaaahhhhh

Tour dates are up!

intimate shows. been craving the closeness a long time.

love to @theninthewave_ for joining me overseas and to @arloparks for coming with me stateside. 💐

tix go on sale next friday, 3/13 @ 10am local. https://t.co/hdIjfLstFb pic.twitter.com/ee1QP8rXa4

— hayley from Paramore 🌺 (@yelyahwilliams) March 5, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLYNVLsu-g&feature=youtu.be

Simmer remix by Caroline Polachek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLYNVLsu-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRA6xocqmow

boygenius on backing vocals

goes on a bit, not bad though

this is the most in rainbows-esque one yet lol. i like it a lot though it is a little longer than it maybe needs to be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xEWeYdryU

like this a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81CGKkR73o

brilliant, again

OK, have not been following the singles releases since about mid-March when the world started falling the fuck apart. But apparently Hayley has been getting shit from some people online about the unorthodox release schedule. In response, she tweeted this video:

my album Petals For Armor drops - in full - May 8th 🌺

listen to Parts l & ll now, wherever you get your internet music. https://t.co/i3uc4v9mQ5 pic.twitter.com/FjDrN868Kw

— hayley from Paramore 🌺 (@yelyahwilliams) April 20, 2020

And over the past couple days, some people on /r/paramore are just about shitting their beds over her calling out "men" about this. This thread in particular is just a nightmare, but there are a few others:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paramore/comments/g4w610/hayley_on_pfa_release_criticism/

I dunno man. Maybe it'll just be a passing thing and blow over in a day or two, but it's weirding me out and giving me GamerGate vibes. I've been active on that sub since the last album came out and it feels like these butthurt dudes are just coming out of the woodwork.

heh, i like her chutzpah. fuck anyone who takes offense to that.

oh my god "Hard Times" was released around this time three years ago.

I'm still wondering why I even try.

this new one could be from 'after laughter'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4zNFMCoED0

Wow, I love that one, probably my favourite of the tracks released so far.

So far? Will there be a PfA III then?

yes five more tracks to go

I thought I heard that she's saving the tracks from the third EP until the actual release date on 5/8.

overwhelmingly brilliant record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jC-iHdy41k

this is the best one

I stopped listening after EP1 was completed. I was planning to wait until my triple 10" box set comes in, but apparently that's not going to be until the end of June. :/

would do virtual happy hour with Taylor York

i'm very excited for everybody on ilx to hear "sugar on the rim"

this is the best one

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)

I was just listening 'why we ever' and thought to myself that probably this one is my favourite so far.
I'm just happy that ILM confirmed my belief.

it's a lot stranger listening to all the tracks in the context of the album, it's really all over the place

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_iD28PIRey/

Ugh that's so annoying. I keep trying to listen to that and no matter what I do, it rewinds to the beginning of the interview when I click away from the tab.

Is there an instagram setting or something where I can just let that shit play in the background?

no instagram really just sucks for video

same problem but i keep jumping back in. Fun talk!

this album is consistently decent but there's not really much i love about it or anything, it's just fine and nothing more unfortunately

i know this song came out months ago but i'm still not over the way the strings swell in "leave it alone"

all of the guitar/bass interplay on this is really lovely too cf. the bridge of "cinnamon"

I love the hell out of watching Hayley play instruments y'all.

i think im doing it 🌺 pic.twitter.com/riyJJTUsSi

— hayley from Paramore 🌺 (@yelyahwilliams) May 1, 2020

https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/in-conversation-hayley-williams.html

wow. that was great.

I like this album a lot, it feels like a natural evolution for her in a lot of ways. It's not as loaded with killer tunes as the last two Paramore albums, but there are plenty of good ones and I like hearing her explore different settings. You can spot the influences all day long but none of it feels too obvious or forced. Very much a "mature" album, in all kinds of ways.

Simmer is probably my favorite song of the year. I don't know that anything else on the album reaches that height but Roses/Lotus/etc is close. don't like this quite as much as After laughter which I never tire of, but it's very good.

is there a plan to release a 'III' EP or is it just I + II and now the full album's out?

the latter

also this may be way too late to bother but if you put the Phoebe/HW instagram video in a new browser and minimize it down to like 20% of yr screen, you can surf in another window in the other 80% of yr screen. at least it's working for me in Chrome. *high five*

xpost thanks

I'll give it a shot!

III > I > II

this album is the only thing making quarantine tolerable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QrCDwYXAA

Did I miss something

there’s a reason there are only 3 people left in @paramore. surprise, haters, it ain’t cause of me.

paramore do not condone religiously/politically dogmatic beliefs which leave our LGBTQ+ friends, fans, & family feeling abandoned and hopeless.

— hayley from Paramore 🌺 (@yelyahwilliams) October 28, 2020

josh f*rro is a homophobe/trumperton

there's a screenshot going around of a josh farro facebook comment where he compares homosexuality to pedophilia

he can truly get fucked

guess he's on his own in the real world

he can truly get fucked

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)

the possibility that he might like it might inform his political decisions

lol thank you for knocking that one down alfred

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/38b26a91-bc7f-4a58-a5cf-d2c93172d95c/gif

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/38b26a91-bc7f-4a58-a5cf-d2c93172d95c/gif

Holy shit, this is so so so good. I didn't listen to the first songs/EP because I wanted to wait for the whole thing, then the whole world went to shit and I spaced on it. But later is better than never, I love this.

Tiny Desk Concert came out today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZknTE5DPlAA

Cool. Just remembered that I think I would have seen her here in ... last March? April?

fuckin' great. this is such a good album.

I'm surprised by the fall-off in conversation after early May.

New EP out today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dju8m_nnzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9q4IH4tNqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7OlTYpl9lY

Hayley has apparently been sending people doll parts in the mail

did anyone else get this mysterious package from @yelyahwilliams?? pic.twitter.com/mRcm1a2ZyB

— roxy moure ⚡️ (@roxymoure) January 22, 2021

and there is a website called

https://flowersforvases.com/

The speculation is that these clues point to new Hayley Williams solo material.

https://i.redd.it/rji6jtl94xd61.jpg

Doll parts? Courtney Love collab? Hole reunion but with Hayley as the front? Album of Hole covers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo_WZ5hx1ls

Hayley hand-delivered a CD of this song a fan with the express purpose of leaking it.

this track is great

FLOWERS for VASES / descansos — 2.5.21 🥀 pic.twitter.com/si6SZq595t

— hayley from Paramore 🥀 (@yelyahwilliams) February 4, 2021

New record tomorrow.

hayleymore

Record as in album?!

Or just a new song? xp

let's hope it's 15 minutes shorter than the first one. i speak as someone who has literally just now sat through the whole thing and enjoyed much of it

either that or make the eclecticism work a hair better. turn that 7/10 album into an 8 or a 9 I believe in u Hayley

wait I gave it 6 in the end, I am cruel lol

the new material is v promising

FLOWERS for VASES / descansos is a full album. 14 tracks and 42 minutes. listening now

13 minutes shorter. acceptable

first track is really lovely

Awesome xps

FLOWERS for VASES / descansos is a full album. 14 tracks and 42 minutes. listening now

― ufo, Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:14 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

13 minutes shorter. acceptable

― imago, Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:15 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm feeling this.

so far it's predominantly an acoustic singer-songwriter album and i'm enjoying it much more than petals for armor

https://i.imgur.com/mZBl1nG.jpg

overall: nice enough, a few really lovely tracks, certainly better as a whole than petals for armor

well thats saying something since I think P4A was one of the best albums of last year

The next Paramore album should be called "Paramore Is Still a Band."

"paramore is a band" (as opposed to hayley&co) was a constant refrain when they were still active as well. part of their dramatic landscape, slight overprotestation and all. wouldn't be a bad title no.

putting this on omgggggg

wait maybe i'm not

apparently there were breakup rumours yet again so i think hayley is getting a little tired of those lol

love me some hayley

The next Paramore album should be called "Paramore Is Still a Band."

Or "Paramore's Got Their Own Album To Do"

where'd it leak? not on the slsk

it's already out in certain countries

v difficult to find yes but i only have to wait eleven hours at this point

yeah, this is more like it

"trigger" ;_;

"no use i just do"!!!!

these songs are beautiful!!!!

I can already tell this is the kinda record I'm not gonna want to put on front to back very often but the right track at the right time is gonna hurt me

yeah, same

"over those hills" almost sounds like late-period cardigans to me

"kyrh" is devastating

Realize this probably sounds intentionally contrarian but I'm enjoying Flowers for Vases way more than I ever took to Petals (which outside of "Simmer" never landed for me). Yes, some of these tracks can feel like sketches but there's some downright lovely music and emotions here that are laid bare in a truly intimate recording.

I'm kind of obsessed with "Over These Hills." What a perfect, simple (but not too simple -- that modulation is key!) little song.

I never got around to listening to this. When it came out, I had grown pretty tired of Petals for Armor and wasn't really interested in an acoustic singer-songwriter version of same. But today, I decided I needed an autumnal album and this one was easy to reach for. Just listened to it twice. It was just what I needed and a lot better than I expected.

Hayley posted on her IG a pic of her with Moses Sumney, which suggests a collab is coming, very intriguing combo

https://www.hayleywilliams.net/

anyone have the code?

from Reddit: 21G_y+dQQE(9v#Os

The new songs now available on streaming services but packaged as 17 separate singles rather than an album

gah so annoying

for the most part i wish i liked these songs more

17 separate singles rather than an album

Eat your heart out, Moby Grape.

I haven't listened to the rest, but "Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party" rules. Also good Nashville video, w/Justin Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw72CQYfHvY

This is a smidge overstuffed, and I lost some of my focus halfway through, but I like it a lot!

Wow this is banger after banger.

This does start to thin in the second half but the first half is by far the best Williams solo material and I’d go so far as to say I prefer to the last Paramore record and Brand New Eyes. Really sharp pop hooks, great experimentation, and a lot of vulnerability in the lyrics.

I really did not like the last Paramore record. I tried to convince myself I liked it, because I had pre-ordered it. But boy, oh boy, it just wasn't for me. This. Is Why. I Don't Pre-order Records Anymore!

it's so interesting that everyone likes this project except for me lol

Have you listened to it since it was released as a sequenced track-list, rather than a bunch of individual tracks?

TIW would have been a flawless record if they'd cut ""The News" and extended that gorgeous flute outro to "Big Man, Little Dignity" another minute. otherwise, no notes.

Have you listened to it since it was released as a sequenced track-list, rather than a bunch of individual tracks?

― peace, man, Friday, September 5, 2025 10:17 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no, maybe that's the thing, but also idk the songs themselves mostly seemed like dead-ends to me

Fair enough. Could be that it's just not for you! I find the first half or so to be really compelling. The back half has some very good moments too, but also, I am never going to going to listen to 18 tracks of this, Ms. Williams.

I listened to most of the new one ("Ego Death ...") and it sounded kinda generic to me. I really, really liked the Petals For Armor stuff, which was quirkier.

I don't think I need to return to this in the long-term, nothing unpleasant, just unremarkable. I did smile at the idea of keeping some space on a 18-track album to do a cover of Discovery Channel.

Hayley and producer Daniel James were on Tape Notes this week, discussing the making of Kill Me, Love Me Different, and Parachute. Pretty fun episode.

https://tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn166-hayley-williams-daniel-james

Can't stop listening to this, and "Good Ol' Days" is an amazing addition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcLIHLod_o

was sort of unmoved by most of this new material (though i'm overdue to try again), but i ADORE the newest song

hayley williams shoegaze supremacy

ok yeah this record is better than i thought on first blush. still have to screen out a lot of the lyrics lol. it's fucked that i went from recoiling at "discovery channel" to thinking that's about the least embarrassing way to interpolate that song if you have to

this strikes me as the actual follow-up to petals for armor. lots of genre play and bold choices. i might still prefer descansos as a mood piece and a set of songs but

"showbiz" is absolutely the best song tho. can't believe it was a second bonus track

I thought her "Discovery Channel" sounded a lot like Fugazi's "Blueprint," but minus the catharsis.

Earlier this year, I blathered quite a bit about The Happy Fits in other threads. And just to be clear, their new album continues to kick my ass. Hand to god, I can't stop listening. But I thought it was a very cool revelation that, when she was a teenager, their guitarist, Raina Mullen, was one of those fortunate youthful hopefuls who had been pulled up on stage to sing the Misery Business lyrics.

Also, she did not succeed in procuring Hayley solo tickets and cried. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXYi8njrQQ

the new kathleen hanna podcast where she interviewed hayley was naturally fantastic

listening now - they're having a really good time! thanks for the suggestion