Happiness Anytime: Part 1 Leon Bridges

• 1 Light the Way 03:31
• 2 Tears of Joy 02:42
• 3 Illusion 03:04
• 4 Your Love Is Electric 03:42
• Total Runtime 12:59

Info for Happiness Anytime: Part 1

Leon Bridges presents Happiness Anytime, his highly-anticipated fifth studio album produced by J. Lloyd and Lydia Kitto of Jungle. The album's title serves as both a mission statement and an invitation. It's music you can put on no matter how you're feeling and be immediately transported somewhere coastal and warm. In crafting the album, Leon Bridges focused on feeling, storytelling, and his vocal performance. Lydia Kitto brought melodic intuition and harmonic detail, and J. Lloyd shaped the production, arrangements, and sonic structure. The result is an album that feels unusually cohesive, like three musicians discovering a shared vision, drawing inspiration from Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, Brazilian music, soul, disco, and South American rhythms.

“It’s music you can put on no matter how you’re feeling and be immediately transported somewhere coastal and warm,” the album description reads. “In crafting the album, Leon Bridges focused on feeling, storytelling, and his vocal performance.”

Leon Bridges

Leon Bridges
Leon Bridges' first strides as a retro-soul artist prompted comparisons to R&B legends like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. A singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Bridges performed in and around Fort Worth, Texas and stirred up music industry interest with analog recordings, produced by Justin Block and Austin Jenkins of White Denim, which were uploaded to his SoundCloud page. Signed to major-label Columbia, his first singles — including a rich ballad written about his mother — appeared in February 2015 with a sound that evoked mid- to late-'60s soul. The following month, Bridges caught more attention with a performance at the South by Southwest Festival, roughly 200 miles south of his home base. His debut album, Coming Home, was released in June 2015.

This album contains no booklet.