As It Is are gearing up to release their forthcoming self-titled album, due out on July 17 via FLG Records. Following the releases of singles “Lose Your Way & Find Yourself” and “Ruin My Life,” the group has returned with another taste of their LP with “Marilyn.” And this song is the uplifting jam you need in your life right now.
Patty Walters says of the song, “It’s never felt easier to be a pessimist and nihilist, so writing a song about hope and humanity felt right. It’s about a near-stranger and their goodness making a big difference early on in your life, but how hindsight can make that difference even clearer. But it’s also about how people are never really gone—not while their words, actions, and values live on in the people their lives have touched. Good people are everywhere, all around us, all the time. This song is about them, and it’s for everyone whose lives are better for knowing them.”
Listen to the exciting new offering below and pre-order As It Is here.
Ben Biss says of their album, “This is an amalgamation of the last 12 years as well as a new level of honesty and transparency. This is the core and crux of who we are. We’re never going to change from now on. It really is more about our relationship with each other and how, through everything, the four of us still have this bond, both as friends and musically. That has been tested a lot through the years, and these songs are now a real testament to our overarching brotherhood and love for each other.”
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Walters continues, “This is the spirit and intention of the joy that formed As It Is in the first place. It is reconnecting with the kids that we were when we started to write songs. And now, we’re showing up with life in our eyes. We can listen to and support each other. This is the most in control and confident the band has been in a long time, but also the most proud. In the past, I had no choice but to be in As It Is. This new era of the band is my choice. Our choice. A choice. But in having it back, it means having maybe the biggest piece of myself back, too.”
You can catch the band at upcoming shows and festivals this year. Check out the upcoming dates below.
Tour Dates:
- April 4—Portsmouth, UK @ Takedown Festival
- June 7—Dordrecht, NL @ Bibelot Poppodium
- June 8—Hamburg, DE @ Betty
- June 9—Berlin, DE @ Badehaus
- June 10—Hradec Králové, CZ @ Rock For People
- June 11—Cologne, DE @ MTC Club
- June 13—Donington, UK @ Download Festival
- July 13—Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
- July 15—Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
- July 17—Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy
- July 18—London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
- July 19—Brighton, UK @ Resident Music
- July 20—Birmingham, UK @ HMV
- July 21—Bury, UK @ Wax and Beans (Matinee)
- July 21—Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club (Evening)
- July 22—Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade
- July 23—Kingston upon Thames, UK @ Banquet Records (at Fighting Cocks)
- July 24—Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade
- July 25—Sheffield, UK @ The Arundel Emporium (Matinee)
- July 25—Liverpool, UK @ Jacaranda Baltic (Evening)
- Sept. 3—Torquay, UK @ Burn It Down Festival
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