Happyness @ SXSW (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Happyness‘ second album has been confirmed for release on April 7th.
Write In is the successor to 2014’s Weird Little Birthday debut, and is being previewed with another new track, Falling Down, below. “I’d like to think this record looks outside the little American alt-rock sphere we were looking in on,” Jon EE Allan says, reflecting on the recording which was completed and mixed with Adam Lasus at his Los Angeles home studio.
“I think we used to be very afraid of being earnest. And now we’re able to be tender or heartfelt without feeling too guilty about it. This record cost us about £500 to make, and that was mainly spent on an 8 track tape recorder and a dehumidifier.”
“We self-produced it in our studio. The building’s being redeveloped at the end of the year, so this is the last record we’ll make there, which feels like the end of a chapter for us.”
More tour dates are out too, and will take the band around the UK and Ireland in April.
Tour dates:
APRIL
18 – The Hope & Ruin, Brighton
19 – The Louisiana, Bristol
20 – Buyer’s Club, Liverpool
21 – Whelan’s, Dublin
22 – The Hug & Pint, Glasgow
24 – Think Tank, Newcastle
25 – Gullivers, Manchester
26 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
28 – The Dome, Tufnell Park, London
