Is This How Happiness Feels? Reverend and the Makers

• 1 Haircut (feat. Vicky McClure) 02:32
• 2 Late Night Phone Call 03:06
• 3 Fucked Up 03:17
• 4 I Want You So Bad 02:52
• 5 D Minor 02:31
• 6 Crying Over You 02:56
• 7 Is This How Happiness Feels? 03:18
• 8 Laid Back 02:52
• 9 UFO 03:15
• 10 I Got The Sun 02:51
• 11 Forever 03:01
• 12 Who Cares? 02:56
• 13 Twenty-Seven Past Midnight 02:34
• Total Runtime 38:01

Info for Is This How Happiness Feels?

Reverend and the Makers return with their eighth studio album, Is This How Happiness Feels? — a vibrant 13-track blend of vintage soul, uplifting grooves, and sharp modern storytelling. Building on the Top 10 success of Heatwave In The Cold North, the band deliver their most confident and accomplished work yet.

Produced by Danny Lafrombé and Jon McClure, this is a bold, joyful record that captures the sound of a band at the height of their powers.

The Sheffield five-piece’s eagerly awaited new album is their most musically accomplished yet, merging vintage, sparkling, life-affirming soul with contemporary lyrical storytelling. “This album has been a labour of love owing to personal reasons but has emerged as a joyous triumph,” says frontman Jon McClure. “It’s easily the best thing we’ve ever done and will surprise a few people too.”

"The best way to describe the album is stunning. I loved “Heatwave In The Cold North”, I loved the other music and albums Reverend and the Makers had previously brought out, but this album feels special, it’s a real mix of influence, raw emotion and actual life experience crafted into thirteen tracks and somehow, it spoke right to me, with some singalong ability and generally just making me feel EVERYTHING – it’s bloody brilliant – bravo!" (Hayley Grice, rgm.press)

Reverend and the Makers

Reverend and the Makers
Never resting on their laurels and constantly striving to challenge perceptions of the band, Reverend and the Makers have become one of the enduring and great survivors of the British music scene. With a career spanning two decades Jon McClure and his collective of musicians burst onto the scene with their Top 5 charting debut album, ‘The State of Things’. The album spawned the UK top 10 single “Heavyweight Champion of the World”.

The five albums since have seen the band move through several incarnations, sounds and line ups and experience all the highs, and most of the lows, that the music industry has to offer. Each album has reached the Top 20 of the UK album charts, an impressive unbroken run of six albums. These albums have seen them cut across a creative spectrum, ranging from collective efforts to the frontman’s singular visions. Instead, The Makers is more a sobriquet, a statement of intent, a commitment and a guiding principle that has seen McClure consistently strive to build, innovate and grow musically and artistically.

The Reverend’s story is one of the great survival stories of the music industry as charisma, talent, defiance and sheer willpower sees the band start a new chapter reenergized and raring to go. With a point to prove, with ‘Heatwave In The Cold North’, Reverend And The Makers set about the task in hand armed to the teeth with an arsenal of their biggest, best and most accessible and ambitious songs to date.

This album contains no booklet.