Alt/indie-pop trio, The Happy Fits have shared their new single “Around And Around” from their highly-anticipated third studio album, Under The Shade of Green, out August 26th. The track serves as the opening song to the album, one that sets the tone and speaks to how life, in the midst of a pandemic and beyond, can often feel like an endless loop. Listen to it now below.
Explaining how the track came to be, lead vocalist and cellist Calvin Langman says, “It works two-fold to me; during the dog days of the pandemic, it felt like the world was just going around and around and nothing changed. Yet, there’d come months or weeks when it felt like the world was changing so rapidly and violently that I couldn’t keep up.”
Langman recalls both the online viral trends and the real life demonstrations that took place in streets across the country that provided inspiration for the song, adding, “One week, millennials were making sourdough bread, and the next we were on the streets taking part in the largest civil rights protest in history for Black Lives Matter. One week, we’d all be binging the next Netflix show, and the next we’d have to internalize a fascist coup.”
Under The Shade Of Green is available for pre-order now HERE. In addition to new music, the band will hit the road this fall and winter across the EU and UK, with U.S. dates soon after. Get tickets before they’re gone HERE.
The Happy Fits
Under The Shade of Green Tour
Fall/Winter 2022
Oct. 17 – Glasgow, UK – Attic
Oct. 18 – Manchester, UK – Night & Day
Oct.. 19 – London, UK – Colours
Oct. 22 – Berlin, DE – Pratchwerk
Nov. 8 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
Nov. 9 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
Nov. 11 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
Nov. 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Hall
Nov. 13 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
Nov. 15 – Detroit, MI – El Club
Nov. 16 – Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe
Nov. 18 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
Nov. 19 – Chicago, IL – Metro
Nov. 20 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
Nov. 22 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
Nov. 23 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
Nov. 25 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Nov. 26 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
Nov. 29 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
Nov. 30 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Dec. 1 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda
Dec. 5 – Dallas, TX – Trees
Dec. 6 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn
Dec. 7 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
Dec. 9 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
Dec. 10 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
Dec. 11 – Nashville, TN – Basement East
Dec. 13 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Dec. 16 – Boston, MA – The Paradise Rock Club
Dec. 17 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
Dec. 18 – Philadelphia, PA – TLA