An album of our times, Sad Happy is formed of two diametrically distinctive sides, the “Happy” side released individually before uniting as one complete body with the other side, “Sad.” “We live in a world split into two extreme halves,” Kieran Shudall explains. “One moment you’re filled with the existential crisis of climate doom and the next you’re distracted by another piece of inconsequential content that has you laughing aloud. I find this close proximity of immense sadness and happiness so jarring, bizarre and fascinating.” Sad Happy was written and produced in full by Shudall and mixed by Grammy winners Dan Grech-Marguerat and Matt Wiggins.