As It Is announce A Decade Uneventful compilation album
After reuniting earlier this month, As It Is have announced details of their “dream rarities project”, featuring a whole lot of lesser-known material between 2012 and 2022…
As It Is are already ramping things up after announcing their comeback earlier this month: as well as being confirmed for next year’s Slam Dunk, the pop-punks have just unveiled details of a brand-new compilation record.
Entitled A Decade Uneventful: B-Sides & Rarities (2012 – 2022), this 25-track collection is due out on November 20 via Slam Dunk Records, with guitarist/vocalist Ben Biss enthusing: “We started this band over a decade ago with little more than the hope of playing some shows with our friends. 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 10 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!”
The first taste of A Decade Uneventful comes in the form of 2017’s Balloons, which Ben says “felt like a very fitting song for us to release upon our return, written after a difficult year, somewhere between okay. and 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 it was written, after everything we’ve been through to be here again, it holds a very important place in our hearts and the history of this band.
“We definitely needed some time away from this band for us to realise how special it is,” he adds. “The response to our return has been truly mind-blowing and emotional for all of us and we couldn’t be more excited for 2025!”
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Check out the full A Decade Uneventful: B-Sides & Rarities (2012 – 2022) tracklist:
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)
And watch the Balloons video from 6pm UK time:
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