{"id":696143,"date":"2026-01-14T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:39:14","slug":"the-academy-is-2005-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696143\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academy Is\u2026: 2005 | Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-date text-center\">\n<p>\t\t\tPosted on\t\t\t<a class=\"post-date-link\" href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2026\/01\/14\/the-academy-is-2005\/\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 14, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\tPosted by\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/author\/scalzi\/\" title=\"Posts by John Scalzi\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a0\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Academy Is\u2026, <\/strong>one of my favorite bands from this century (and yes, I feel old just typing that out), has recorded their first new album in eighteen years, titled Almost There, and will be putting it out in March. In the meantime, here is the first single from the album, \u201c2005,\u201d which is a paean both to that year and still being around more than 20 years later. Speaking as someone whose debut novel came out in 2005: Feel it.<\/p>\n<p>Also if you want to preorder the album and merch, <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.theacademyis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they have a shop<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JS<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u2190 <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2026\/01\/12\/a-minor-planet-a-major-thrill\/\" rel=\"prev noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Minor Planet, a Major Thrill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on January 14, 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The Academy Is\u2026, one of my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-696143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115895387056969556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}