Fresh from the news of their recent reunion, As It Is have announced that they will release a new compilation, ‘A Decade Uneventful: B-Sides & Rarities (2012 – 2022)’, on November 20.
The band have already dropped the first taste of the album, ‘Balloons’, which was recorded in 2017. It arrives on streaming today (September 11) alongside several other songs recorded during the period around their album ‘The Great Depression’.
On the release of ‘Balloons’, guitarist Ben Biss said “It felt like a very fitting song for us to release upon our return, written after a difficult year, somewhere between ‘okay.’ & ‘The Great Depression’, this song is about confronting our fear that the band felt like it was ending. Listening to this song back seven years after if was written, after every thing we’ve been through to be here again, it holds a very important place in our hearts and the history of this band.”
Have a listen below:
The band will perform live at Slam Dunk Festival 2025 in Hatfield and Leeds next May.
“We started this band over a decade ago with little more than the hope of playing some shows with our friends,” Ben says. “It is in this spirit that we are reunited, so the only place that made sense to kick it all off was Slam Dunk. A festival the band has played five times over the past ten years and that has always supported, not only our band but the scene as a whole. The platform it’s given us to connect with people is far beyond what any of us envisioned when starting this band.”
“We’re also excited that our relationship with Slam Dunk is evolving, the collection of b-sides and rarities is something we’ve been wanting to make happen for many years, and Slam Dunk Records are finally making our dream rarities project a reality!”
Have a look at the artwork and full tracklisting for ‘A Decade Uneventful: B-Sides & Rarities (2012 – 2022)’ below:
1) Sinking Down (2017)
2) Balloons (2017)
3) Los Niños no Lloran (The Stigma demo) (2017)
4) Bleed (live demo) (2018)
5) Bully (The Hurt, The Hope demo) (2018)
6) No Way Out (acoustic) (2018)
7) Patchwork Love (acoustic) (2018)
8) Babylon Ben (2016)
9) May We Go Down As Lovers (2016)
10) Just Another Family (2016)
11) okay. (demo) (2016)
12) Still Remembering (demo) (2016)
13) Every Year Gets Better (2013)
14) John Hughes (2013)
15) Upswing (2013)
16) January (2013)
17) Often (2013)
18) Every Year Gets Better (acoustic) (2013)
19) John Hughes (acoustic) (2013)
20) Upswing (acoustic) (2013)
21) January (acoustic) (2013)
22) Often (acoustic) (2013)
23) Map & Compass (2012)
24) Pilgrims (2012)
25) We Fight Back (2012)