The Happy Fits

Everything You Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKf11AW1RbM

Cruel Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNLRVBHspiY

I posted about this New Jersey-based indie pop/power pop band on the Power Pop? thread a few weeks ago, but decided to start a thread because I'm absolutely addicted to their two singles from their forthcoming album, Lovesick. These are extremely bright, upbeat, sugary slices of pop rock that may be too much for some on ILX, but I suspect will be just right for others. Will the rest of the album warrant this whole new thread? Only time will tell, but it's a risk I'm willing to take!

I initially picked up on them because, after parting ways with their founding guitar player Ross Monteith, the band picked up two new female singer/guitarists, Raina Mullen and Nico Rose. I've been keeping tabs on Mullen after her previous band, the jam band Ghost Light, called it about a year after I first learned about them. She has a lot of songwriting talent that was evident in Ghost Light, which I suspect she is bringing to this band as well. I haven't gotten around to researching Nico Rose's origins, but she is also extremely capable on vocal/guitar duties.

I've been working my way through the band's back catalog, and it's been a mixed bag for me. The original band members started recording immediately out of high school, so their early tunes are not as compelling to me as the new stuff. They get better as they go along, though. Going through the little playlist I made of older Happy Fits music that actually works for me, I'm just now realizing that some of my favorites coincide strongly with their released singles. My investigation is nowhere near complete, though, because that kind of research and evaluation gets in the way of bumping the new singles, which I'm dizzily in love with.

Achey Bones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9nOWpLCU4

No Instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqonGTaohqo

Do Your Worst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teL54k9DbYU