5 Seconds Of Summer - The Feeling Of Falling Up... May 2026

The answer, according to 5 Seconds of Summer, is that you don’t stop falling. You just learn to recognize the feeling. You name it. You write a song about it. And then, you fall upwards again, together.

Since exploding onto the scene in 2014 as the punk-lite protégés of One Direction, the band has been in a perpetual state of “falling upwards.” They fell into stadiums. They fell into arenas. They fell into critical acclaim with the surprise 2020 album CALM . But with each upward swing came a gravitational pull: burnout, creative doubt, the erosion of private selfhood. 5 Seconds of Summer - The Feeling of Falling Up...

Released in September 2022, 5SOS5 was a record born from chaos. Written and recorded in the eye of the COVID-19 pandemic, the album found Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, and Ashton Irwin scattered across the globe, separated from each other and the roar of the crowd for the first time in a decade. The result was their most mature, sonically diverse, and emotionally raw work to date. But to truly understand the album, you have to watch the film. The answer, according to 5 Seconds of Summer,