The band unveils new album details and announces spring tour dates.

The London trio’s latest single, Falling Down, extends their musical world by taking on the bold and brave stand of a two-minute guitar-led intro. Happyness might have released their most slow-burning track to date, embodying ‘less is more’ without any outstanding musical explorations to talk of.

Though entering late, the vocals add another dimension as the band’s Jon EE Allan’s chill voice delivers a layer of distinct summer vibes whilst finally providing us with the lyrical aspect that initially is what Happyness excel in.

The video itself starts off on the same note as the tune, slow, steady and monotone. A rhythmically glaring TV screen accompanies the prolonged guitar intro, reinforcing the sense of repetition.

Dragging this one clip to the absolute edge, to the point where you indeed feel a bit lost. It takes Happyness almost two minutes before revealing that we are, in reality, viewing this TV screen through the silver screen in a cinema. As the video grows psychedelic it feels just as much like you’re falling into yourself, through the multiple layered filming, as though you’re falling down. Or maybe this is exactly the same experience.

The amateur filming itself stands in strong contrast to the artistically layered imagery. The compact impression leaves you both intrigued and maybe a little bit sea sick.

Guitarist Benji Compston explains:

A friend of ours manages a cinema (shoutout Nyla!) and she gets free use of it every Monday night when the public have left. We showed up at midnight with an old TV and some musical equipment and a vague plan to shoot a Spiegel Im Spiegel effect with the cinema screens. Special credit should probably also go to the coffee machine.

The trio also lift the lid on their sophomore album, Write In, due to be released April 7th through Moshi Moshi Recordings.

Happyness‘ direction for the forthcoming album is best summed up by Jon EE Allan:

I’d like to think this record looks outside the little American alt-rock sphere we were looking in on. 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 affectionately named ‘Jelly Boy Studios’, where the band also recorded their debut, ‘Weird Little Birthday’]. 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.

What’s more, the band will embark on UK/Ireland headline tour in April this year.

18 – Brighton, The Hope & Ruin

19 – Bristol, The Louisiana

20 – Liverpool, Buyer’s Club

21 – Dublin, Whelan’s

22 – Glasgow, The Hug & Pint

24 – Newcastle, Think Tank

25 – Manchester, Gullivers

26 – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds

28 – London, The Dome Tufnell Park