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Actions have introduced their fourth studio album, Happier Now, out Sept. 4 through Fearless Information and produced by Will Yip.
Vocalist Patrick Miranda explains that, regardless of not having a transparent imaginative and prescient for the album, they knew they needed to mix the emotional type of their earlier music with the heavier, newer sound from 2023’s RUCKUS!. Two songs that got here from the primary session had been “Dissolve Me” and “Again In My Methods,” out at the moment.
“‘Dissolve Me,’ the primary monitor we wrote for this document, set a precedent for our writing course of,” Miranda says. “Nailing the lead single for an album cycle on the primary attempt is a big accomplishment. It felt like the right end result of power, emotion, and progress for us sonically. Like a lot of the document, this music is introspective, and it’s a confession about my very own social behaviors and the challenges I face in navigating even the smallest or most ‘regular’ on a regular basis interactions. These emotions are likely to accumulate and worsen over time, to the purpose the place they’ll change into debilitating. Typically it seems like the one treatment can be to slam my head right into a wall.
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“‘Again in My Methods’ was a monitor that I hated at first,” Miranda continues. “I feel there was a part of me that was hesitant to wish to slip again into the ‘sadder’ aspect of our music. Typically the early variations of the songs we write don’t hit instantly, however over time, it’s change into one among my favourite tracks on the document. This music is a sluggish burn in additional methods than one, and it’s actually particular.”
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Watch the video for “Dissolve Me” and “Again In My Methods” and see the tracklist for Happier Now under.
Actions – Happier Now tracklist
- “Pulse”
- “Dissolve Me”
- “Every thing Is Positive”
- “Happier Now”
- “Flowerbed”
- “Again in My Methods”
- “Spellbound”
- “Sick at Ease”
- “Dwell by the Sword”
- “Everybody I’ve Ever Been”
- “Fragile Arms”
- “Separate”
