As It Is announce release date and guests for Never Happy, Ever After X

Following the news that they were getting back together to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their Never Happy, Ever After debut at Slam Dunk this spring, a couple of weeks ago Brit pop-punk types As It Is dropped a reworked version of fan-favourite banger Dial Tones featuring Holding Absence singer Lucas Woodland.

Now, Patty Walters and co have revealed the complete guestlist for the special Never Happy, Ever After X album, coming on April 18.

As well as Lucas, it will see members of Sum 41, Mallory Knox, Sleeping With Sirens, Trash Boat and a load of others helping rework every single track. Which, they say, is what happens when an idea gets out of control.

“We knew Never Happy, Ever After deserved a big ten year celebration, and what started as an idea to re-record a few singles, quickly snowballed into an unbelievably ambitious project," says Patty.

"We are incredibly excited to have a whole host of guests join in the celebrations, from artists that directly influenced the record like Hidden In Plain View and Transit, our friends and touring pals in Trash Boat, Holding Absence, ROAM and Mallory Knox, and fresh new blood in the scene that As It Is have influenced in some way, like NOAHFINNCE and ARTIO – it is a record full of special full circle moments.

"From covering Sum 41 on YouTube to having Brownsound shred a solo on a song, and a long overdue collaboration with Kellin Quinn who Patty covered way back in 2011 and we toured with on the Never Happy cycle, this record encapsulates the 2015 scene we came up in whilst paying respect to the bands that influenced it and the new bands that are moving it forward into the future.

"We can’t wait for people to hear this new version of Never Happy, to get to celebrate this record with so many friends and heroes was inconceivable to the kids that wrote this record ten years ago. This may be the one of the most special records to us that we’ve ever made.”

Never Happy Ever After X tracklist

1. Speak Soft X (feat. Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens)
2. Cheap Shots & Setbacks X (feat. Mikey Chapman of Mallory Knox and Alex Adam & Alex Costello of ROAM)
3. Sorry X (feat. Mikaila Delgado of Yours Truly)
4. Drowning Deep In Doubt X (feat. Joe Cabrera of Beauty School)
5. Dial Tones X (feat. Lucas Woodland of Holding Absence)
6. My Oceans Were Lakes X (feat. Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh of Sum 41 and Rachel Walters)
7. Concrete X (feat. Tobi Duncan of Trash Boat)
8. Turn Back To Me X (feat. Rae Brazil of ARTIO)
9. Can’t Save Myself X (feat. NOAHFINNCE)
10. Silence X (feat. Joe Reo & Rob Freeman of Hidden In Plain View)
11. You, The Room & The Devil On Your Shoulder X (feat. (feat. Ella Meadows of Transit/narrowcast)

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