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As It Is team up with The XCERTS’ Murray Macleod for new single Ruin My Life
Watch the video for As It Is and Murray Macleod’s new anthem Ruin My Life, taken from the band’s summer self-titled album.
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- Emily Garner
As It Is have joined forces with The XCERTS’ Murray Macleod for a colossal new single called Ruin My Life.
According to frontman Patty Walters, the track is “a reckless love song about the band and all we’ve been through together”. The vocalist continues: “It’s a celebration of getting back together and a nod to all the mistakes we made along the way. We’re not the only band to have made amazing memories and catastrophic choices in equal measure, but we couldn’t tell the story of our band by omitting either. Without our unbreakable friendship, we wouldn’t have survived, and this song is about the love that got us to the other side of the darkness.
“We wrote this song with Murray from The XCERTS, so it only felt right to have him with us in the studio and his voice on the recording. We wouldn’t have this song, truly one of our all-time favourites, without him.”
Ruin My Life is taken from As It Is’ newly-announced self-titled album, which is due out on July 17. Of their headspace going into the record, Patty enthuses that, “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.”
Watch the video for Ruin My Life below:
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