Happyness @ SXSW (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Happyness have today posted Falling Down as the first single to be taken from their second studio album.
The follow-up to 2014’s Weird Little Birthday is expected in the spring of 2017, and this single announcement is accompanied with plans for their biggest headline show to-date at Tufnell Park Dome in London on April 28th.
“One of many anti-overthinking songs,” singer and guitarist Jon EE Allan says of the single. “I think we thought it would be funny to trick people into thinking we’d turned into Interpol or something for about 15 seconds at the beginning of the record.”
“I remember we were talking at the beginning of the recording sessions about Wizzard and Roxy Music and us maybe taking a leaf out of the whole glam rock thing, but getting it a bit wrong.”
“Like children dressing up in their parents’ clothes or something – completely silly but very serious about it. I don’t think we ended up pushing that line of thought for the whole of this song, or even for THAT much of the album, but maybe a bit of it made it into the outro synths.”