Tracklist:

1. In Another Way
2. A Piece of Mirror
3. We Go Where We’re Not Wanted
4. Your Dream
5. Good Memory
6. Scissors
7. Heavy Breathing
8. Her Alphabet
9. I Came Here to Harm You
10. A Beast

Evil is very real and having its way, and love is also real and hasnt lost yet. Thats how Activitys Travis Johnson described their third album, A Thousand Years In Another Way. A friend had asked why these songs seemed to capture the strange, heavy feeling of being alive right now better than anything elseand that was his answer. The album doesnt try to explain this time were living in; it simply feels like it. Its a mix of violence, alienation, and tendernessreflecting the surreal, dreamlike (or nightmarish) rhythm of daily life. Across ten songs, Activity blends experimental rock, electronics, and found sounds with a sense of paranoia, flickers of hope, and a warped reality. Working with producer Jeff Berner (of Psychic TV), the band manipulated sounds and played with room acoustics to create a feeling thats disorientinglike the air is thick and the walls are listening. Coming out of a period of uncertainty, the Brooklyn-based quartetTravis Johnson, Jess Rees, Bri DiGioia, and Steven Levinepieced the album together from fragments: clipped samples, looping guitar lines, ghostly melodies. Rees, DiGioia, and Johnson share vocal and writing duties, shaping a record that feels both deeply personal and strangely alien. Theres a constant sense that things could shift or fall apart at any secondnothing stays one thing for long. A Thousand Years In Another Way might not offer answers, but it captures the feeling of right now better than most. And maybe, it sounds a bit like your world too.