Safe in Sound is the fifth and final studio album by British rock band Lower Than Atlantis, released on 3 February 2017.

The label offered the band the chance to take an advance and leave, which they subsequently did to build a personal studio.

Here, the group worked on their next album, Lower Than Atlantis, which was released through Sony Music and supported by successful tours.

Drum tracks were recorded in late 2015 at The Pool at Miloco Studios in London with producer Dan Lancaster.

[2] In January 2017, "Boomerang" was made available for streaming, and in the following month, Safe in Sound was released through Easy Life Records and Red Essential.

[7] After signing with Sony Music in 2014, the group released their self-titled album in October of the same year,[3] charting in the top 20 in the UK.

Duce said their studio was "great for close mic stuff but not so good for big room drums.

[11] Jones mentioned that the group originally planned to record a few songs but "liked the sound so much they decided to do the [drum tracks for] whole album".

[12] Following the end of a UK tour in December 2015,[13] the band members went on a six-month break to spend time with family.

[16] Duce described the recording process as: "Me, Ben and Dan sitting in our studio running through things in a pretty leisurely way.

"[20] Most of the songs were written between Duce and an additional writer: "Had Enough" with Julian Emery and Lancaster, "Dumb", "Long Time Coming" and "Work for It" with Lancaster, "Long Time Coming", "Could Be Worse", "I Would" and "A Night to Forget" with Dan McDougall, "Boomerang" with James Bay and Jonathan Green.

[23] Duce was "having a shit day and couldn’t be bothered to [record a] vocal [for] an instrumental [track] I had," which resulted in the creation of "Had Enough".

"[19] Duce considered "Could Be Worse" and "I Would" to be reminiscent of their second album, World Record (2011), in the sense that they feature "the best bits of our band, and then a couple of new things.

[31] With "A Night to Forget", Duce explained that the group were playing festivals where people would be "pissed with their mates, jumping up and down and having a laugh – and it didn't feel like we had a song for that.

[33] Duce explained that with their previous album, the group released "the 'best' song" first and found it "hard to follow-up single-wise.

[41] Safe in Sound was released on 3 February through Sony Music-affiliated labels Easy Life Records and Red Essential.

[52] Belfast Telegraph reviewer Ryan Ward called the album a "decent attempt" in making "radio friendly heavy(ish) rock.

"[54] She wrote that the album was "a case in point" that the band are capable of being "at their finest" when they are able to "strike a balance between their pop tendencies and their grunge roots.

"[54] Writing for The Irish Times, Lauren Murphy mentioned that while the band "take their cue from the emo and hardcore scenes," the album "intermittently strays from that path.

"[57] In a short review for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jon M. Gilbertson wrote that despite Safe in Sound being "steeped in the softer anthemic qualities" of groups such as U2 and Coldplay, it was "basically a modern-pop slab suitable for chill-out hours.

[59] Rob Sayce of Rock Sound wrote that the album was "engineered for the airwaves; almost every song produced and polished to within an inch of its life.

"[60] Stereoboard reviewer Liam Turner wrote that the album was the band's "latest attempt to perfect the fusion of hard rock and poppy commercialism.

[23] Ali Shutler of Upset wrote that the group was "building on the direct aims" of the self-titled album, in that they "fully embraced the ... ability to write a banger, ‘Safe In Sound’ gets straight to the point.