As It Is will release the Never Happy, Ever After 10th-anniversary edition album on April 18 via Slam Dunk Records.
The re-record of their debut album has 13 features across the 11 tracks from Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens, Mallory Knox’s Mikey Chapman, Noahfinnce and more. It also features their recently released collaboration with Holding Absence‘s Lucas Woodland.
Speaking about the forthcoming release, As It Is have said:
“We knew Never Happy, Ever After deserved a big ten year celebration, and what started as an idea to re-record a few singles, quickly snowballed into an unbelievably ambitious project.
We are incredibly excited to have a whole host of guests join in the celebrations, from artists that directly influenced the record like Hidden In Plain View and Transit, our friends and touring pals in Trash Boat, Holding Absence, ROAM and Mallory Knox and fresh new blood in the scene that As It Is have influenced in some way, like NOAHFINNCE and ARTIO – it is a record full of special full circle moments.
“From covering Sum 41 on YouTube to having Brownsound shred a solo on a song, and a long overdue collaboration with Kellin Quinn who Patty covered way back in 2011 and we toured with on the Never Happy cycle, this record encapsulates the 2015 scene we came up in whilst paying respect to the bands that influenced it and the new bands that are moving it forward into the future.
“We can’t wait for people to hear this new version of Never Happy, to get to celebrate this record with so many friends and heroes was inconceivable to the kids that wrote this record ten years ago. This may be one of the most special records to us that we’ve ever made.”
1) Speak Soft X (feat. Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens)
2) Cheap Shots & Setbacks X (feat. Mikey Chapman of Mallory Knox and Alex Adam & Alex Costello of ROAM)
3) Sorry X (feat. Mikaila Delgado of Yours Truly)
4) Drowning Deep In Doubt X (feat. Joe Cabrera of Beauty School)
5) Dial Tones X (feat. Lucas Woodland of Holding Absence)
6) My Oceans Were Lakes X (feat. Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh of Sum 41 and Rachel Walters)
7) Concrete X (feat. Tobi Duncan of Trash Boat)
8) Turn Back To Me X (feat. Rae Brazil of ARTIO)
9) Can’t Save Myself X (feat. NOAHFINNCE)
10) Silence X (feat. Joe Reo & Rob Freeman of Hidden In Plain View)
11) You, The Room & The Devil On Your Shoulder X (feat. (feat. Ella Meadows of Transit/narrowcast)
