Script: The User's Guide To Being Human (Clear Vinyl) (LP)

The Script’s talent for writing songs brimming with exhilarating emotion and increasingly epic melodies has captivated fans around the world—a success that has led to a catalog of global hits such as “Hall of Fame,” “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved,” and “Breakeven.” On their eighth studio album, Danny O’Donoghue is once again collaborating with his songwriting partners Andrew Frampton and Steve Kipner—the hit-makers with whom he and Mark Sheehan created a whole string of The Script’s best-known songs, including “Breakeven” and “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved.” Also on board is producer and songwriter Jimbo Barry (“Hall of Fame,” “Superheroes,” “The Last Time”). The lead single “Man In The Arena” is a rousing, defiant anthem—backed by gripping, martial drum beats—that draws on all the band’s experiences and global successes from the past two decades and solidifies their status as undisputed pop-rock giants. As their passionate and loyal fanbase knows all too well, The Script also possess that crucial quality: a genuine, emotional, and deeply soulful connection. It is precisely this invigorating and unifying idea that forms the heart of “The User’s Guide to Being Human”—the element that, in music, in life, and for The Script, stands above all else. After all, as the song goes: “Tell me what the hell we’re actually doing if we, as humans, aren’t simply being human.”