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Love Is Like (2025)

Where the lyrics of Love Is Like take you, and where it was really made.

Adam Levine wanted the songwriting done in-house, yet this became the first Maroon 5 studio album not to reach the US top ten.

Key places

Conway Studios: album recording (2025)

Recording site Conway Recording Studios — Conway Studios is one of the studios where Love Is Like was written and recorded, during the Las Vegas residency and into early 2025. The point marks the studio at building level in Los Angeles. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Westlake Studios: album recording (2025)

Recording site Westlake Recording Studios — Westlake Studios is listed among the studios where Love Is Like was written and recorded. The point sits at the studio's location in West Hollywood. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Secret Garden: album recording (2025)

Recording site Secret Garden — Secret Garden is named among the studios used for Love Is Like in the Santa Barbara area. Only a city-level position is available, so the point marks the centre of Montecito, not the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Love Is Like: eighth studio album by American pop rock band Maroon 5
• Released August 15, 2025 by 222 and Interscope Records
• Follow-up to the seventh studio album, Jordi (2021)
• Deluxe digital edition released August 16, 2025 with three additional tracks, including “Closer” featuring Marshmello
• Guest appearances by Lil Wayne, Sexyy Red and Lisa
• Produced by Federico Vindver, Jacob “JKash” Kasher Hindlin and bassist Sam Farrar, with Noah “Mailbox” Passovoy, Elof Loelv, Bobby Love and Rio Root
• Labeled pop, R&B and hip-hop, with prominent influences of soul, funk and new wave

Background

• Written and recorded throughout the Las Vegas residency (2023–2024) and into early 2025
• Frontman Adam Levine wanted the songwriting to come internally, unlike Jordi and Red Pill Blues (2017), where outside writers produced demos
• On April 10, 2024, Levine announced on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the band was working on an album
• First album by the band in four years since Jordi (2021)
• Supported by the Love Is Like Tour, starting in North America in October 2025 with Claire Rosinkranz as support act

Recording

• Recorded at Conway Studios, Westlake Studios and Secret Garden, among other studios around the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara areas
• Lead guitarist James Valentine said the first five tracks were mainly written between just the members

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Formed as Kara's Flowers in Los Angeles, California, in 1994 while members attended Brentwood School.
• Released the independent album ...We Like Digging? in late 1994 and signed to Reprise Records, releasing The Fourth World (1997), which sold around 5,000 copies before the band was dropped.
• Re-emerged in 2001 as Maroon 5 after signing to Octone Records and adding guitarist James Valentine.
• Debut album Songs About Jane (2002) peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005.

Members

• Current lineup: Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, James Valentine, Matt Flynn, PJ Morton, Sam Farrar.
• Ryan Dusick left in 2006 and was replaced by Flynn.
• Mickey Madden left in 2020 after a domestic violence arrest; the case was dropped without charges and Farrar replaced him.

Career

• It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007) debuted atop the US Billboard 200; "Makes Me Wonder" topped the Billboard Hot 100.
• "Moves Like Jagger" (2011) reached US number one; "One More Night" topped the Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks in 2012.
• Maroon 5 has sold more than 135 million records and won three Grammy Awards and three American Music Awards.
• Headlined the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in 2019 and ran a Las Vegas residency from 2023 to 2025.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: 50 out of 100, based on 4 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews
• Pitchfork’s Linnie Greene wrote a negative review, saying the swagger sounded unconvincing and that even LISA and Lil Wayne could not rescue the songs from banality
• Pitchfork described the album as another repackaging of benign background noise for listeners who do not register a song’s particulars
• Reviews compared the album unfavourably with the band’s earlier releases, which the critical coverage framed as a commercial and critical step back

Records

• US Billboard 200: peaked at number 36 with about 18,000 units
• First studio album by the band not to peak in the top ten
• First album with no top-40 hits, while all earlier albums had at least one top-ten hit
• First studio album that failed to enter the UK Albums Chart
• Entered the top twenty in Japan and Switzerland
• Lead single “Priceless” featuring Lisa debuted at number 76 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and later became a top-ten single in eighteen other regions

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The “All Night” video pays tribute to Robert Palmer’s 1986 hit “Addicted to Love”, with Behati Prinsloo Levine lip-syncing through the video.
• The title track’s music video follows Adam Levine through the streets of New York City.
• The band appeared on The Today Show and performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival to promote the album.
• The Japan special edition adds a bonus DVD of live footage from the 2025 Tokyo shows.
• Sam Farrar’s full bass work on this album makes it the first by the band to feature him on bass throughout.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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