{"product_id":"activity-a-thousand-years-in-another-way-lp-explicit-lyrics-preorder-ships-june-06-2025","title":"Activity - A Thousand Years in Another Way LP (Explicit Lyrics)  (Preorder: Ships June 06, 2025) ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Please note: This title will ship on or around its release date June 06, 2025. Date and availability is subject to change. We will ship all items in your order when the last title is released and available – so if you would like anything else on your order shipped separately, please place separate orders. Thank you. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Evil is very real and having it's way, and love is also real and hasn't lost yet.\"\r\n\r\nThat's how Activity's Travis Johnson sums up A Thousand Years In Another Way, the Brooklyn band's third album. A friend had asked why the songs captured the strange, heavy feeling of being alive right now-and that was his answer. The album doesn't explain this era; it simply inhabits it, blending violence, alienation, and tenderness into something that feels like modern life itself.\r\n\r\nAcross ten songs, Activity mixes experimental rock, electronics, and found sounds with paranoia, flickers of hope, and a warped reality. Working with producer Jeff Berner (Psychic TV), they manipulated sound and space to create an atmosphere where the air feels thick and the walls seem to listen.\r\n\r\nComing out of a period of uncertainty, the quartet-Travis Johnson, Jess Rees, Bri DiGioia, and Steven Levine-assembled the album from fragments: clipped samples, looping guitars, ghostly melodies. Rees, DiGioia, and Johnson share vocal and writing duties, crafting songs that feel both personal and eerily unfamiliar. Nothing stays fixed-everything could fall apart at any moment.\r\n\r\nLead single \"In Another Way\" opens the album with raw energy and an unsettling refrain: \"Who will marry me now? All the good husbands have drowned.\" That instability continues on \"We Go Where We're Not Wanted,\" built from layered samples and fractured rhythms, evoking a society on edge.\r\n\r\nVulnerability runs through the record. \"Piece of Mirror\" offers ghostly minimalism, Hesse-inspired lyrics, and an innocent yet ominous pulse. \"Good Memory\" and \"Her Alphabet\" explore lost innocence, while \"Heavy Breathing\" brings a tender brush of '80s synth-pop.\r\n\r\n\"Scissors\" pairs crushing bass with sweet melodies, while \"Your Dream\" and \"I Came Here to Harm You\" confront quiet resentment in both personal and political realms.\r\n\r\nCloser \"A Beast\" draws from Blood Meridian and the Book of Revelation, reflecting on evil-and imagining it's end. It's a fitting finale for a record that lives in a disoriented, bruised, and strangely beautiful world.\r\n\r\nIt might not offer answers, but A Thousand Years In Another Way captures the feeling of right now-and maybe yours, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel: Western Vinyl\u003cbr\u003eUPC: 843563182796\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: June 06, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Another Way\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Piece of Mirror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e We Go Where We're Not Wanted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Your Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Good Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Scissors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Heavy Breathing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Her Alphabet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Came Here to Harm You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Beast\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"02- Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56731491729781,"sku":"843563182796","price":3.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8300\/2485\/files\/4419180-3380615.jpg?v=1770883047","url":"https:\/\/warmvibevinyls.com\/products\/activity-a-thousand-years-in-another-way-lp-explicit-lyrics-preorder-ships-june-06-2025","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}