Any Given Sin and Mascot Records have announced the release of the band’s second studio album titled Until We Disappear on November 20. Today, they present “Like You,” a recording that will be featured on Madden 2027 from EA. To preview the song, click here. Any Given Sin share, “’Like You,’ is a song about toxic relationships. There is a personal aspect to this song for all of us in our own ways. But the moral is the same; suffer no fools! We are beyond grateful to have our song ‘Like You’ featured in Madden 2027. Huge thanks to EA Sports and the NFL for this amazing opportunity.”
Prior, the band presented “Until We Disappear.” Also featured on this upcoming album are “Through Hell,” which was included in the end credits for the feature film The Barn III and the band’s interpretation of the Men At Work hit “Down Under.” A prior cover released of The Cutting Crew’s “(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight” has amassed over 22 million streams since first released.
Hundreds of seedy budget motels sit alongside the endless highways of North America. Between long haul drives and sweat-soaked gigs, you might find Any Given Sin’s vocalist Victor Ritchie and guitarist Mike Conner in one of these old hotel rooms toiling away over lyrics when they should be sleeping. Instead of getting rest, the musicians will confront life’s darkness and their own demons in the dead of night, sharing a piece of paper with thoughts and confessions scrawled in the form of verses and choruses. Victor will write a line, and Mike will answer with his own until a song slowly, but surely takes shape. These nights give the Maryland band—rounded out by bassist Rich Stevenson and drummer Mike Showalter—an edge of their own.
It’s evenings like this that have invariably informed their second full-length album coming later this year.
“The lyrics definitely happen in seclusion,” affirms Mike. “Victor and I have spent many nights in motels just writing words on paper until 3am, no matter when we need to wake up. He’ll write a cool line and show it to me and ask, ‘What do you think?’ I’ll share my own idea. It’s a long and meticulous process, but it’s really open. We’re speaking truthfully to one another. We’re dealing with darker subjects like sadness and depression. That’s usually what comes out in almost every song.”
This unfiltered honesty has defined the group’s sound since their emergence with 2015’s independent Forbidden EP. Gaining a buzz, they earned a bona fide underground hit with “Dynamite.” To date, it has eclipsed 13 million streams, but it also marked their first radio success, surging as SiriusXM’s “#1 Most-Spun Song on Octane’s Accelerator,” breaking the Top 5 of the popular BIGUNS Countdown, and closing out 2019 in the “Top 30 Songs of the Year.” From there, the guys notched two successive #1 entries on SiriusXM with “Insidious” and “Another Life,” which has clocked 10 million-plus streams thus far. Everything paved the way for the arrival of their debut LP, War Within, in 2023.
“It took a long time for us to make it this far,” Mike leaves off, “and we’re going to kick it in the ass until we can’t do it anymore. I’ve gotten a lot of messages from people who will tell us our songs got them through hard times. We hope to bring listeners comfort.”
