UK band Happyness released the Tunnel Vision On Your Part EP earlier this year and are busy finishing up the proper follow-up to 2014’s Weird Little Birthday. That record doesn’t have a title or release date yet but you can hear a track off of it right now. “Falling” is a little bit different for the band, who previously channeled equal parts Wilco and Pavement, though they eventually fall into a familiar groove. Says singer and guitarist Jon EE:
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.
Listen to the song below.