Best Ex 'With a Smile' 12" Vinyl LP
“With a Smile” is full of sardonic emo-tinged indie-pop songs about breakup and heartache. The album is a concept album about the ways in which the world tells women to smile. "We’re expected to be a million things, but one of those is always pleasant in public. We’re supposed to suck up our issues with our mental health (lest we get labeled hysterical or over-emotional). We’re expected to shrug off the injustices we see in the world. We’re expected to just smile through our own abuse and never say a word. And of course, sometimes we smile for good reason. We fall in love, people make us laugh, the sunshine in the summer feels healing. Good things do happen, there is still beauty in the world. I’m not a total cynic, I’m just an exhausted introvert." - Mariel Loveland / Best Ex
Track Listing:
01. With a Smile
02. Tell Your Friends
03. Give Me a Break
04. Salt On Skin
05. I Promise to Ruin Your Life
06. Stay With Me
07. Die For You (feat. Luxtides)
08. Cut Me Out
09. What The Hell
10. Joyride
11. The End
12. Daylight
“With a Smile” is full of sardonic emo-tinged indie-pop songs about breakup and heartache. The album is a concept album about the ways in which the world tells women to smile. "We’re expected to be a million things, but one of those is always pleasant in public. We’re supposed to suck up our issues with our mental health (lest we get labeled hysterical or over-emotional). We’re expected to shrug off the injustices we see in the world. We’re expected to just smile through our own abuse and never say a word. And of course, sometimes we smile for good reason. We fall in love, people make us laugh, the sunshine in the summer feels healing. Good things do happen, there is still beauty in the world. I’m not a total cynic, I’m just an exhausted introvert." - Mariel Loveland / Best Ex
Track Listing:
01. With a Smile
02. Tell Your Friends
03. Give Me a Break
04. Salt On Skin
05. I Promise to Ruin Your Life
06. Stay With Me
07. Die For You (feat. Luxtides)
08. Cut Me Out
09. What The Hell
10. Joyride
11. The End
12. Daylight
“With a Smile” is full of sardonic emo-tinged indie-pop songs about breakup and heartache. The album is a concept album about the ways in which the world tells women to smile. "We’re expected to be a million things, but one of those is always pleasant in public. We’re supposed to suck up our issues with our mental health (lest we get labeled hysterical or over-emotional). We’re expected to shrug off the injustices we see in the world. We’re expected to just smile through our own abuse and never say a word. And of course, sometimes we smile for good reason. We fall in love, people make us laugh, the sunshine in the summer feels healing. Good things do happen, there is still beauty in the world. I’m not a total cynic, I’m just an exhausted introvert." - Mariel Loveland / Best Ex
Track Listing:
01. With a Smile
02. Tell Your Friends
03. Give Me a Break
04. Salt On Skin
05. I Promise to Ruin Your Life
06. Stay With Me
07. Die For You (feat. Luxtides)
08. Cut Me Out
09. What The Hell
10. Joyride
11. The End
12. Daylight