Tiny Habits hit the ground running in 2024 with the release of their debut album All for Something, a full-length statement building upon the folky soft-rock sound the Berklee-formed group had established on a string of singles that preceded the release. The record would soon earn the trio invitations to open for everyone from Noah Kahan and Gracie Abrams to Sarah McLachlan and James Taylor, helping the band to bulk up their rolodex before returning to the studio.
Now, Cinya Khan, Judah Mayowa, and Maya Rae are announcing the arrival of that project’s follow-up, with Keepers landing on August 28. The all-star production team on the record includes Philip Weinrobe, Ryan Linvill, and Jeremy Schmetterer, while the record’s second single (following “Right in Front of Me” from earlier this year) features backing vocals from The 1975’s Matty Healy. The track is a slow-lurching indie-folk tune about living up to the expectations of a partner’s past loves.
“‘Anything He Was’ lives in the ache of loving someone who is still haunted by someone else,” the band shares, its chorus’ lush vocal harmony still barely rising above a whisper. “It’s about trying to become the answer to a question you were never meant to solve and slowly realizing that no amount of tenderness can rewrite what they’re missing. It captures that painful kind of hope where you keep giving, loving, and trying to be enough, even when some part of you knows you’re being measured against a memory of another. This song came from a place of loneliness and self-delusion, but we hope it feels comforting to anyone who has ever stayed too long in something that made them feel second-best.
“Big thanks to our good pal Matty,” the group adds of their collaborator on the song, “who put his melodic spin on the second verse which gave the song a whole new texture and perspective.”
Check out “Anything He Was” below, and pre-order Keepers via Mom + Pop here.
