Dirty Work

Dirty Work is the fourth studio album by All Time Low released on June 6, 2011. Barakat said the writing process consisted of Gaskarth writing songs and then the band going into the studio to put in their two cents and changing a couple things around. In an interview with Just So You Know, Gaskarth said the album title

Summarizes the theme of the songs, most of which centralize around escapism; running from my problems, burning bridges because of those problems; and the realization that it’s hard work to rebuild after those problems have torn people apart.

Regarding the sound of the album, they described it as an effort to develop their sound and hone in sic on great songwriting rather than conform to the boundaries of a certain genre. The album contains pieces reminiscent of genres such as emo-pop, pop, pop-rock, and power-pop.

The singles for the album were “I Feel Like Dancin'”, released on April 5, 2011, followed by “Forget About It” on August 15, 2011. “Time-Bomb” was then released on January 6, 2012, and “Guts” on May 14, 2012.

The album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 with 43,000 first week sales. Dirty Work has sold 107,000 copies in the US to date October 2012. Dirty Work also charted on a number of Billboard charts: number 1 on both the Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, number 3 on the Digital Albums chart and number 19 on the Tastemaker Albums chart.