As It Is have announced a tenth anniversary re-recording of their debut album, enlisting Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens, Mallory Knox’s Mikey Chapman, Noahfinnce and more for the project.
The ‘Never Happy, Ever After X’ project from the pop-punk quartet, and Rock Sound 25 Icons, will arrive April 18 via Slam Dunk Records, and has 13 features across its 11 tracks in total.
Other guests involved in the project include Holding Absence vocalist Lucas Woodland, for their recently released reworking of ‘Dial Tones’; guitarist of fellow Rock Sound 25 Icons Sum 41, Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh; and Tobi Duncan of Trash Boat.
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.”
And to celebrate the release of this tenth anniversary, we’ve teamed up with Slam Dunk Records to offer this exclusive yellow and blue variant on clear vinyl, which comes with a bespoke 12-page booklet – which are limited to just 300 copies.
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See the full tracklist, artwork, and guest features below.
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)
