It may have been a bit quiet on the As It Is front in recent months, but the band have now confirmed the deluxe reissue of last year’s ‘Never Happy, Ever After’. The latest addition will feature four bonus tracks, including new song ‘Winter’s Weather’ and three acoustic versions of others.
“We’re incredibly excited to be able to re-release our debut ‘Never Happy, Ever After’,” says vocalist Patty Walters. “We worked extremely hard to make these extra songs special and worthy of a re-release. ‘Winter’s Weather’ was written whilst we were on the road towards the end of 2015. Written across countries, vans, motels, sound checks, dressing rooms, practice rooms, studios and friend’s houses, this was a song born in the environment that Never Happy paved for us and so we see it as a closing song to the Never Happy era.”
“I’ve always loved acoustic versions of songs,” Ben Biss adds. “Reimagining these songs definitely give them a completely different tone and interpretation of each song. Concrete especially presented as a male/female duet adds a new layer that really pushes the song in a darker direction which to me gives a new perspective to the lyrics of the song. We were excited to get Ansley from Jule Vera to sing on it after becoming friends on Warped Tour. Patty and I actually wrote the main bulk of lyrics and melodies to Winter’s Weather late at night in Jule Vera’s home studio in Alabama when we were crashing there one night on The AP Tour. There’s a lot of stories and memories that we have because of making the songs on the re-release, from recording all the acoustic songs in one long day in Indianapolis to tracking Winter’s Weather in Wrexham at the end of 2015’s touring schedule.”
The record is available to pre-order now, as As It Is gear up to support Sleeping With Sirens across the UK at the end of this month and into next.
FEBRUARY 2016
29 BRISTOL O2 Academy
MARCH 2016
01 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
02 GLASGOW O2 Academy
04 MANCHESTER O2 Apollo
05 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
06 LONDON Roundhouse