the previous 12 years and decided to focus on their families. In addition, they also felt the music industry was controlling their image and ideas. Vocalist Joel Madden said they took their website offline, sold off all of their merchandise because they wanted to "go out with a clean slate." Benji and Joel Madden hosted The Voice in Australia, before forming The Madden Brothers project. They used this project to move away from Good Charlotte's pop punk sound to explore pop music. After releasing a mixtape, they began working on an album in 2012, which was eventually released as Greetings from California in 2014. The brothers did production and song writing work for 5 Seconds of Summer, All Time Low, Three 6 Mafia, among others. Additionally, they formed MDDN, an entity that served as a record label, management and music publishing company. Guitarist Billy Martin worked as an artist/illustrator for Nickelodeon and Disney. Bassist Paul Thomas got a degree at University of California, Berkeley. Drummer Dean Butterworth served as a session musician and wrote music for TV shows. The brothers got the idea to reform Good Charlotte while working on All Time Low's Future Hearts and 5 Seconds of Summer's Sounds Good Feels Good albums in 2015. They had an interest in making pop punk music again and decided to contact the other members, who were interested in writing a new album. Production The group wanted to return to the simplicity of their first three albums where they would write a song and record it instantaneously. Two days before recording sessions started, all of the members and their respectively families gathered at Benji Madden's house. The first day in the studio, they wrote "Life Changes". For three months, the brothers would write a song, show the rest of the band, practice it and then record it. By the end of each day, the group at least had a rough outline of a new song. They eventually went back finished up the tracks. Long-time collaborator John Feldmann acted as producer. They group had worked with Feldmann previously for a few songs, but had not recorded an album with him, which was something they had wanted to do for a while. Joel Madden said Feldmann was a "very hardworking guy, very obsessive and he expects a lot of the people he works with." Recording finished in summer 2015. Kellin Quinn of Sleeping