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| Released | 14 August 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 1 December 2014 – 21 January 2015 | |||
| Genre | Pop punk[1] punk rock | |||
| Length | 36:17 | |||
| Label | Hopeless | |||
| Producer | Jeremy McKinnon • Andrew Wade | |||
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Life's Not out to Get You is the second studio album by Welsh pop punk band Neck Deep. Following the success of their debut album, Wishful Thinking (2014), the majority of the band members quit their day jobs and vocalist Ben Barlow dropped out of university. Working with Jeremy McKinnon, Andrew Wade and Tom Denney, the band recorded their second album between December 2014 and January 2015. Following recording the band immediately went on tour.
Life's Not out to Get You was preceded by two singles: "Can't Kick Up the Roots" in May 2015 and "Gold Steps" in July. "Can't Kick Up the Roots" charted at number 16 in the UK on the Rock & Metal Singles chart. In early August, "Threat Level Midnight" was made available for streaming. It was released by Hopeless on 14 August. The album charted at number 8 in the UK, reached the top 20 in the US, and reached the top 40 in Ireland and Australia. It is the band’s final album to feature their full original lineup. Nine days after the release of the album, guitarist Lloyd Roberts left the band due to allegations of sexual misconduct, which were dropped soon after.[2]
- ^ Solomon, Blake. "Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You - Album Review". AbsolutePunk.net. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "North Wales Police drops investigation into ex-Neck Deep guitarist Lloyd Roberts". BBC News. 14 October 2015. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.