Chicago, US – Action/Adventure have released brand new single ‘Real Juicer Hours’. The single is out now via Pure Noise Records and is the band first new music since the release of the bands second album ‘Imposter Syndrome’ in 2022.
On the new single the band said, “It had been a minute since we’d all sat down together and written collaboratively. That’s how we’ve always done our writing up until COVID forced us to figure out a more remote approach for Imposter Syndrome. Getting back to writing with all of us in the same room again really created a way for this song to come out naturally. We were able to express a lot of things we’d all been dealing with over the past couple of years and have it come out organically in a concise and cohesive way. Not to mention working with Alan was an amazing experience. He helped bring out the best in all of us.”
Action/Adventure shouldn’t be here. At least, that’s what the Chicago-based five-piece seems to think.
That’s the overriding theme of their 2022 debut album and partly why they named their second record “Imposter Syndrome”–because when the band signed to Pure Noise Records, they couldn’t quite believe it.
“For us,” says lead vocalist Blake Evaristo, “having a debut on Pure Noise is insane. Especially because, when “Barricades” blew up for us and we got all that TikTok clout, it happened during the pandemic, so we didn’t even play a show till nearly a year later. And I feel like, in that time, we were having Imposter Syndrome, hence the title.
Action/Adventure previously shared four offerings from their debut, “Levity” ,“3818″, “Carolina Reaper” and “Autopilot”.
Action/Adventure are acutely aware their existence is nevertheless important in terms of visibility. They’re just also keen to stress that their initial intentions were all music-focused, and that it’s chance, not design, that they’re all BIPOC. “Those two parts have to co-exist on completely even playing fields,” explains Jackson. “One can’t really outshine the other. Growing up in the scene, I almost felt like a pariah–I could count the amount of other black people going to shows on one hand. One of them is Adrian! You’d always see the same four or five other black people at shows, so you get to know each other. So it’s important to not lose sight of that, but also don’t want us to be a token band. We’re just a band. We’re a group of people playing music that we like to listen to and that we like to write–and we just all happen to be people of colour. It was an accident, it wasn’t planned.”
One listen to this record, and that’s clear. It’s emotive and erudite, sophisticated and serious, fun but also full of the trials and tribulations, insecurities and uncertainties that make us all human. All that is channelled into these 10 impassioned and precise, vigorous and spirited songs. The fact that it hits so incisively and profoundly demonstrates why – even if they use the term with tongues firmly in cheek – pop-punk for adults is the perfect description.