It’s been three years since the Los Angeles-based fivesome Willoughby released its debut album, "I Know What You’re Up To", and in those years, the band’s founder, Gus Seyffert, worked on perfecting his art as touring bassist for the Black Keys and Norah Jones. When the jet setting musician finally returned home, and back to the studio, his experiences gave him an eagerness to tweak the band’s sound on the second album. According to Seyffert, the new tunes aesthetically possess some of the same qualities as the first album, but the energy is a bit more buoyant, as opposed to the heartbroken, melancholy feel of Willoughby’s debut. This liveliness can be heard in the five-piece’s first single off the record, “This Will Be Your Drink,” which the band pressed as a 7-inch vinyl in advance to the record, with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s, “Everybody Knows,” as the B-side. The quintet will be releasing the single on Tuesday, October 25, at The Satellite, with plans to tour the west coast this fall. – Katrina Nattress
