Name: Tunnel Vision On Your Part
Brand: Happyness

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ws010v

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-10-07

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Supplier US

RTUK

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Sales:8.875

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1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Happyness

Genre US

Rock-Pop

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RT UK

<p>Happyness is a South London-based band formed by multi-instrumentalists Benji Compston, Jonny Allan, and Ash Cooper. With fluid roles within the band, Jonny Allan and Benji Compston took on lead vocals while Ash Cooper played drums. Drawing inspiration from American Indie Rock bands of the 1990s such as Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse, and Low, Happyness has crafted their own unique sound. In February 2019, Benji Compston left the band for health and personal reasons but continues to perform solo.</p>

The harmony-packed single Anna, Lisa Calls appears here as the opener to Happyness' Tunnel Vision On Your Part EP, with the band saying; "This is our first phone call song and our 5th song in E major. We wrote it one day in the studio in June and recorded it straight away - I think we were going for a kind of Traveling Wilburys thing. Also we felt like we hadn't put a synth in a song for a while, so there's a synth." The EP, which also includes single SB's Truck - a track penned by the band in homage to Samuel Beckett, who famously used to give the beloved, late, 80's wrestler André The Giant lifts to school in his truck, owing to him being too large for his dad's car - also provides a rare direct glimpse into the band's influences as they offer their own interpretation of Club Gaga's Friend Of The Revolution. Originally featuring on their Suburban Lake album, it's a record that Happyness hold up as one of their favourites of all time, saying "Most (if not the whole) of the record is findable on YouTube. There were a few different songwriters in the band - but this one's by the great Peter Fancher."

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