Tiny Habits have announced new album ‘Keepers’, and dropped a tender new single ‘Anything He Was’ featuring The 1975‘s Matty Healy.
The new record will be the sophomore album from the former NME Cover stars, following on from the celebrated 2024 debut ‘All For Something’. It is set for release on August 28 via Mom+Pop Music and available for pre-order here.
Written and recorded in Los Angeles and New York, including sessions at The Outlier Inn in New York’s Hudson Valley, the LP comes after two “transformative years” for the Boston folk trio. Since dropping their debut record two years ago, they have performed alongside artists like James Taylor, Gracie Abrams, Vance Joy, and Noah Kahan.
Already the album has been previewed by the liberating lead single ‘Right In Front Of Me’, and now Tiny Habits have shared the second preview with the compelling single ‘Anything He Was’.
The track explores themes of loneliness, past relationships and doubt, and features The 1975 frontman Matty Healy as a guest vocalist.
“‘Anything He Was’ speaks to a specific loneliness brought on by someone else’s discontent,” the band explained. “They’re constantly using you to fill a space that can only be filled by someone else who is no longer there for them. Knowing this deep down, you still try; you show up. You make them laugh. You’re intimate with them.”
“You perform gestures of kindness and grandeur in hopes that someday it’ll be enough, that your hard work will blossom into something more than just a bittersweet delusion,” they added. “But it won’t (womp womp). You’ll never amount to them or the cherished moments they shared together. To those who share this experience (current or past), may this song soothe that loneliness and be a little gift on your path to find the love that you deserve.”
The theme of the song aligns with that of the album as a whole, which takes on motifs of people, memories and relationships, as well as versions of ourselves we choose to carry forward, and the ones we leave behind.
Their collab with Healy comes after they joined forces in November, and dropped a cover of James Taylor’s classic 1968 song ‘Carolina In My Mind’ online.
Speaking to NME for their time on the Cover in May 2024, the trio shared their gratitude at seeing their music and fanbase come together.
“It’s just such a blessing to be able to sing with each other,” Cinya Khan said. “It feels like we’re just chatting with each other, and to sing a harmony on somebody’s story – with your best friends – is just the sweetest thing ever.”