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As It Is (/\\\) are a British-American band formed in 2012 and have released four EPs, three full length albums and one re-imagined album. (from left to right: Alistair Testo, Patrick Foley, Patty Walters, Ronnie Ish)

their music is just incredible. Patty means every single word he sings, and all of it just makes you Feel something

and every album has different vibes but it all feels like them, you know?

like i could hear any one of their songs and be like , ‘yeah that’s patty and ben!’ but still know which album it was

the EPs (Two Track, Blenheim Place and This Mind Of Mine) are pretty raw and powerful

Never Happy, Ever After is really pretty and energetic, and lyrically is pop-punk at it’s purest

okay. is probably the most pop oriented of all of the albums, and makes you want to sing or dance or cry

The Great Depression is the most recent album, and it’s fascinating how most other bands move from darker music to lighter, whereas As It Is went completely the other way, from colourful bright pop-punk in okay. to full emo in The Great Depression

basically what im saying is that they have an album for most vibes

NH,EA is for road trips and rebelling

okay. is for nostalgia and trust and healing and learning to love

TGD is for screaming at injustice and grief and hurting

they approach topics with a lot of stigma and handle them well, like mental health and toxic masculinity/gender stereotyping.

they’re not glorifying or romanticising mental health issues like many other bands, they’re dealing with it logically and showing every side of the issue.

A couple songs that focus on mental health: Can’t Save Myself, Okay, No Way Out, Soap, Until I Return, The Reaper, The Truth I’ll Never Tell, The Haunting and The Hurt, The Hope

Patty is very vocal about going to therapy and talks about the importance of it in a few interviews, as well as the band contributing to mental health charities

‘I promise I'll fight but I can't promise that I'll be fine’

And in terms of addressing toxic masculinity, one of their most powerful songs, in my opinion, is The Stigma (Boys Don’t Cry), and the music video for it is just as strong.

it basically features the band at military school and being told to man up and fit social stereotypes (tw for violence tho if you’re not into that)

Plus patty and ben just look hella pretty with nail polish and makeup

A few songs to say ‘fuck the world’ to: Cheap Shots And Setbacks, The Great Depression, The Wounded World and The End.

Patty grew up doing covers of Sleeping With Sirens and My Chemical Romance songs, so if you like those kinds of things his youtube channel is brilliant

Also by Patty on youtube: you know that video of Brendon Urie getting hit in the face with bread? That was him

and on a personal note, As It Is mean a hell of a lot to me. They sing about my home town, which I haven’t visited in years, in The Coast Is Where Home Is and January and encapsulate how I feel about my own brother in Hey Rachel. Every word Patty has sung resonates with me, and I am so glad to have found them.

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hi i’ve been dead for a while but here’s a gif of patty smiling to make up for it