- 2025-12-23
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Allie X Releases New Album “Happiness Is Going To Get You”
Los Angeles-based Canadian singer-songwriter Allie X released her fourth studio album “Happiness Is Going To Get You” on November 7, 2025.
Allie X spent three years making her previous album “Girl with No Face”, but this time she recorded the new album in just one year.
On the album, she wrote the songs on piano, adopting a new persona she dubs Infant Marie, who is caught between nostalgia, hope, and dread, weaving baroque instrumentation with digital production to reflect an evolving inner world.
The album comprises 12 tracks, produced by Allie X, Bastian Langebæk, Bram Inscore and Marshall Vore.
Allie X said of the concept of the album, “This writing process was an unexpected return to my first instrument, the piano. This album is what I would call the 'deep breath' after the hysterics of Girl With No Face. The labour and intensity of writing/producing GWNF seemed to open some sort of space in me for something novel to form. I honestly couldn’t believe how quickly I wrote and produced these songs. The easiest way to explain HIGGY, is to say it is about time.”
She continued, “It plays with the idea that someone can exist in more than one place in time. Inside the cube the Infant Marie is distilled somewhere in the past, though she is also undeniably surrounded by the apocalyptic present. This idea plays out sonically (on songs you haven’t heard yet) between baroque instrumentation contrasting samples and digital machines, and visually juxtaposing old relics with digital renders. This is a commentary on the moment I find myself in currently – caught between nostalgia, hope and dread. The concept is brought to life and explored at length through The Infant Marie, who is my alter ego and the hero of the story.”- Allie X said of the album, “Without really meaning to, I produced another album. This one started as vague piano and voice ideas that would “make appearances” occasionally when I was (rather manically) programming Girl With No Face. These ideas felt utterly out of place and character for that record, so I would do a quick and messy capture of them as voice note, basically due diligence as a songwriter so they didn’t slip away.”
She continued, “Cut to summer 2024. I think my fans know how much GWNF took out of me, and my plan was to take things slowly with whatever came next. But out of curiosity, I revisited those old piano ideas — and suddenly, full songs and productions started pouring out of me haha. The ease of it was foreign…After the anger and wildness of GWNF, there seemed to be space for something reflective, melancholic and accepting. HIGGY was born.”
She added, “I brought these demos to my new friend Bastian Langebæk and together we turned it into living and breathing record in Copenhagen. This collaboration was so fun and meaningful process for me. It has been so apt becoming the Infant Marie, even before Moni Haworth named her, I think she was there transcending time and space and planting these seeds of music. TBH I’ve never felt more like a ‘vessel’ for music. This album feels very personal but at the same time like something not entirely mine. The darkness in my music is still there but this time it feels challenged by a stubborn, undeniable beam of light.” -
Allie X explained some tracks for the album.
“Is Anybody Out There?”
“This song is about sending a message into the darkness and waiting for an answer – a commentary on cultural anxiety of isolation, hope and the need to connect.”
“Reunite”
“From my perspective, ‘Reunite’ is a truly wholesome and very personal song about coming back together as a person when life has broken you apart. It is a celebration of growing up and understanding that my body has always been on my side, despite feeling the opposite for most of my life.”
“A Glitch In Marie”
“I’ve been actually thinking about this because that experience of writing Girl With No Face was the ghost in the room that inspired the name or the abstract energy that I’m calling a ghost. She was carrying feelings of mine from a long time ago that I’d never managed to put into songs. And it was this really vengeful, angry thing, immature, almost like a teenager.
These teenage feelings that I’ve been holding for a long time, but at the same time, when I started getting these ideas for what became Happiness Is Going To Get You, and what became The Infant Marie alter-ego of this new record.
That energy was in the room because I was getting those ideas, all at the same time of writing Girl With No Face, and that energy was totally different [back then], and that’s why I knew they should be voice memos that I put away for the future. It was far more than reflective, less angry, it was almost this sort of future energy, this vision of something to come that was being channelled at the time.”
“Happiness Is Gonna Get You” via RANGE
“The sentiment of Happiness Is Going To Get You is both a way of saying surrender can be good and bad, but it’s inevitable that happiness is going to get you. It’s inevitable that life is gonna happen. I wouldn’t say this record is documenting that I found inner peace, but it’s documenting a coming of age for me and a real maturity. Knowing that [peace] is there, but also that chaos is part of being alive.”
“Uncle Lenny”
“I think the first one was 'Uncle Lenny', which I would of written years ago with Marshall Vore, but it wasn't written for Happiness Is Going To Get You specifically.”
“Stay Green”
“Maybe if you’re super simple [and] in a childlike state of mind for your adult life, which, I guess, there are ways to achieve that. And that’s sort of what 'Stay Green' is about [and staying] naive, which is pretty much impossible, but it’s a nice notion. But I think the title of the album is supposed to encompass both doom and hope and that both sides — the good and the bad — are pretty much inevitable in life.”
“It's Just Light” via RANGE
“Basically, the last song is just light. It plays with this idea that light is so powerful. It burns you and it hurts, but it’s also so beautiful. It fills you up and fuels you and gives you this [feeling] that being alive is such an intense and incredible experience - these profound feelings.”
Photo by Moni Haworth - source : Apple Music
