[Cover photo credit to Anna Koblish]
Indie Rock band The Happy Fits have announced their new album, Lovesick, which will arrive on September 19th, 2025. Lovesick comes out of a time of an “emotional maelstrom in which the band’s world turned upside down in every way imaginable.”
The band has also released new single “Cruel Power”, along with an official video, featuring dancer and choreographer Lucy Vallely. “Cruel Power” looks at the “push and pull of a toxic breakup, inviting heartbreak, if only for the rush.”
Frontman Calvin Langman comments on the song:
This track lives in the messiest corners of attraction. It’s about knowingly putting yourself in a situation that’s bad for your heart, and doing it anyway. The lines between friend and lover blur, and suddenly you’re watering someone else’s plants and wondering how you got here. There’s humor in it, self-deprecation, and a little lustful chaos. I wanted it to feel like a late-night spiral in song form. It captures that ridiculous, electric moment when you know you’re being played—but part of you kinda loves the drama.
Of the video, Langman continues:
I love one-take music videos. I love how it breaks down the convention of band and crew and it forces everyone to assume the role of performer. Every movement is carefully planned and the entire set has to move like one giant hive mind. This video was a huge group effort.
Lovesick was written and recorded after ten tumultuous months that saw one founding member depart the band, severing a creative partnership that had formed the band’s bedrock, another member leave their tour to get sober, and a third “entering an era of self-renaissance after the dissolution of a serious relationship and a series of relocations.”
The album is “a complicated reckoning with all the joy and pain that comes with opening your heart to the world.”
Lovesick also marks The Happy Fits’ first release withguitarists/vocalists Nico Rose and Raina Mullen.
Langman says:
It feels like a whole new beginning. We had to go through a lot of struggle to get here, but the band is stronger and healthier than ever before now, and I couldn’t be more excited about the chapter we’re about to embark on.
Tour Dates:
09/24 – Madrid, Spain @ Sala El Sótano
09/25 – Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Vol
09/27 – Paris, France @ La Boule Noire
09/28 – Antwerp, Belgium @ Kavka
09/30 – Cologne, Germany @ Luxor
10/01 – Munich, Germany @ Kranhalle
10/03 – Milan, Italy @ Arci Bellezza
10/04 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Bogen F
10/05 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Cafe V lese
10/07 – Berlin, Germany @ Frannz
10/08 – Hamburg, Germany @ headCRASH
10/09 – Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013
10/10 – Groningen, Netherlands @ Simplon
10/11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
10/12 – Arnhem, Netherlands @ Luxor Live
10/14 – Birmingham, UK @ Mama Roux
10/15 – Leeds, UK @ Wardrobe
10/16 – Glasgow, UK @ Garage
10/17 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
10/18 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
11/01 – Richmond, VA @ The National
11/02 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
11/04 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
11/05 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/07 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
11/08 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
11/10 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
11/11 – Dallas, TX @ The Echo
11/12 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
11/14 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
11/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
11/16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
11/18 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
11/19 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
11/21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Grand at Complex
11/22 – Denver, CO @ Gothic
11/25 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
11/28 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
11/29 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic
11/30 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
12/03 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
12/05 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian
12/06 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews
12/07 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
12/09 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
12/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
12/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
12/13 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
