Alternative rock band Mayday Parade released its fourth album, “Monsters in the Closet,” on October 8 to enthusiastic reviews from the band’s loyal fan base.

The sound of the album’s 12 songs is not a big leap from past hits like “Miserable at Best” and “Jamie All Over,” both released on 2007’s “A Lesson in Romantics,” which reached number two on the “Billboard” charts and has sold over 170,000 copies.

Hailing from Tallahassee, Florida, Mayday Parade is made up of Brooks Betts (rhythm guitar), Jake Bundrick (percussion and vocals), Alex Garcia (lead guitar), Jeremy Lenzo (bass guitar and vocals) and Derek Sanders (lead vocals, keyboard and acoustic guitar).

The band wrote all of the songs on “Monsters in the Closet,” keeping with their reputation for innovatively emotional lyrics that are  atchy yet full of meaning. In “Hold onto Me,” the band sings, “I’m drifter’s body in an open sea / And I’ve seen my reflection staring right back at me / With no place to go and you’re left all alone / There’s no place like home,” expressing the comfort that love can provide when it feels like the world is caving in on itself. The song “The Torment of Existence Weighed against the Horror of Nonbeing” is a deeply philosophical anti-love song that songs an awful lot like something by one of Mayday Parade’s more popular contemporaries: The Maine and Imagine Dragons. The comparisons to these bands and others are not uncommon, and that may be why fans of similar not-cutesy boy bands (Yellowcard, We the Kings, Fall Out Boy, Boys Like Girls, Forever the Sickest Kids, My Chemical Romance, Metro Station and others) often find their way to the music of Mayday Parade and vice versa.

The album is on sale at Target for $7.99 for a limited time and the band is currently performing it on a nationwide tour that will wind its way around the country, starting and ending in the band’s home state with five shows (October 11, November 26, 27, 29 and 30).