Taking Back Sunday to release deluxe edition of ‘Happiness Is’

Taking Back Sunday have announced plans to release a limited edition, deluxe edition of their most recent full-length ‘Happiness Is’.

‘Happiness Is: The Complete Recordings’ is due for release early next year, on 24th February through Hopeless Records, and not only will it contain a copy of their latest record, it’ll come complete with eight 7” vinyl all boasting a selection of rare and unreleased material from the album’s recording process.

The collection is set to contain three B-sides, along with a handful of acoustic renditions of some of the album’s tracks which, as Adam Lazzara explained in a press release, felt “real sentimental and warm”.

“There was something real sentimental and warm feeling about the acoustic demo version of “Like You Do,” the vocalist has said. “Ed (Reyes) and I were staying in the saddest hotel in all of Long Island while the band was writing what would later become most of Happiness Is. This place was as close to one of those 1970s New York City hotels as I had seen in the movies and on the news growing up as you could get, the only exception being that it was on Long Island. Motel style, with ladies of the night, yelling at all hours, the works. It was the worst. I was missing home something awful and it was the worst it had been. That’s where “Like You Do” happened. In that smoky room, at that seedy hotel. I played it back on my voice recorder and it took me someplace else. I think we came pretty close to that feeling with this recording. At first we even talked about just leaving it as an acoustic song. Now we have both.”

The band have also released a brand new video for album cut ‘All The Way’, which you can watch below.