Following the release of their live album LiveSOS in 2014, 5 Seconds of Summer took a break for the holidays.
Aside from the track Invisible, which was penned in August 2014 at Ocean Way recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, the majority of Sounds Good Feels Good was written in 2015 in Los Angeles.[1]
The band flew to Los Angeles in early 2015 to start writing and recording what was to become their second album.[2]
On 12 August 2015 they announced the title and cover art for the record, with pre-orders starting on 14 August in each time zone.
On 13 August 2015 the album release date was announced via the band's official Twitter.[4]
The album cover was designed by Richard Andrews, who created the album cover for 5 Seconds of Summer's last two projects – 5 Seconds of Summer and LiveSOS.
Many songs touch on severe topics like depression and mental health. The band stated that the album was written as a way for them to work through personal issues, and from there they worked to make it an album for their fans, as well. In an interview with Notion magazine, the boys said:
With the first album we were 16 years old when we wrote it. But now we’ve been on tour for four and a half years, we’ve experienced stuff. We’ve written about a lot of different things on this album because we’re older and we’ve experienced more of life, so we’ve got more to talk about. [5]
Calum Hood, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson, Marcus Lomax, Clarence Coffee, Jr., B. Madden, J. Madden, John Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Andy Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes
The Sounds Good Feels Good Tour was 5 Seconds of Summer's second headlining concert tour to support their second studio album, Sounds Good Feels Good. The tour started on February 19, 2016 in Nagoya, Japan at the Nagoya Congress Center and concluded on October 5, 2016 in Sydney, Australia at the Hordern Pavilion.
The tour ranked at #1 on Billboard's 2016 Hot Tours. In total, according to Billboard Boxcore, the tour grossed $39 million from 743,906 sold seats at 102 performances.[15]