On Luxury Disease, the members of ONE OK ROCK prove they couldn’t escape rock music for long. For their previous release, 2019’s Eye of the Storm, they set aside the arena-sized pop-punk they had been building since the mid-2000s to lean into studio craft, fine-tuning its tracks with production inspired by R&B and dance-pop. The jittery, guitar-driven intro of “Save Yourself” signals the roaring comeback of ONE OK ROCK, the rock band. The quartet go all in with a familiar sound, launching into stadium-rock spectacle with the musical-minded “Neon”, co-written by the equally operatic Brendan Urie of Panic! At the Disco, closely followed by the crooning electric guitars of the bold Queen homage “When They Turn the Lights On”. While Luxury Disease brings back the guitar-centric sound from earlier ONE OK ROCK records, it also draws from the success of the band’s previous exploration with studio pop production. Some of it comes from the confident blurring of genres: “Mad World” runs new wave punk through a dance-pop filter, with emo-rock chords and preset hand claps anticipating a fuzzy lead guitar that screeches like a synth drop. It shines through in the polished songwriting that charts a sleek flight path leading up to frontman Taka’s soaring choruses. The sweet melody in the verses of “Let Me Let You Go” makes the suffocating heartbreak at the song’s centre go down deceptively easily, while “Vandalize” slowly squeezes out the shrieking pain through the buildup to its bloodletting chorus (“Said you’d keep me safe, now you’re tearing me down/Am I laid to waste, now that you’re not around?/Come and leave your mark/Vandalize my heart”). While the punk-rock sounds invite the feeling of a return to form, the breezy songwriting defines Luxury Disease as closer to a refinement of the cathartic music ONE OK ROCK deliver best.