As It Is have unveiled their updated version of ‘Cheap Shots & Setbacks’, featuring guest appearances from members of Mallory Knox and ROAM.
Taken from ‘Never Happy, Ever After X’, a tenth anniversary re-recording of the band’s debut album, it follows the release of ‘Dial Tones’ featuring Holding Absence vocalist Lucas Woodland, their collaboration with Yours Truly‘s Mikaila Delgado on ‘Sorry’, and the NOAHFINNCE featuring ‘Can’t Save Myself’.
Featuring Mikey Chapman of Mallory Knox and Alex Costello/Alex Adam of ROAM, the band have spoken on the collaboration:
“Cheap Shots & Setbacks is probably one of our few positive anthemic songs. We always thought this would be our biggest single, but alas Dial Tones proved us wrong!
Back in 2014 in the backstage of a club in Bristol, Alex Adam & Alex Costello from ROAM demoed guest vocals on the bridge. It didn’t make the record for whatever reason but ten years later there was only one band we wanted to guest for that bridge part. They’ve done it live with us countless times over the years and all our first big experiences as a band were together with ROAM. They simply had to appear on the record. We couldn’t get them back from the dead but we could get them to reprise their famous guestie spot one more time.
In 2015 we also spent the summer with Mallory Knox on the Warped Tour – Mallory have always been UK rock legends to us, and have had a similar journey in many ways to us. To have Mikey also sing on this track really turns this version into a full 2015 party. He blew us away in the studio and we’re so excited for people to hear this song the way it was always meant to be.”
Check out ‘Cheap Shots & Setbacks X’ below:
Enlisting Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens, Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh of Sum 41 and more for the project, ‘Never Happy, Ever After X’ will arrive on April 18 via Slam Dunk Records.
To celebrate its release, we’ve teamed up with Slam Dunk Records to offer an exclusive yellow and blue variant on clear vinyl, which comes with a bespoke 12-page booklet – limited to just 300 copies.
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See the full album tracklist, artwork, and guest features below.
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. Ella Meadows of Transit/narrowcast)
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