Today Brooklyn, NY four-piece Activity announces the upcoming album titled A Thousand Years In Another Way, recorded with producer Jeff Berner (from Psychic TV and Shilpa Ray), due for release June 6th, 2025 on Western Vinyl.

The album announcement comes with the release of the moody new single “In Another Way” accompanied by a perfectly complementary, mysterious video directed by Steven Levine, who up until recently played drums with the band. The current lineup of Activity features vocalist and guitarist Travis Johnson (from Grooms), bassist Bri DiGioia, guitarist Jess Rees (from Russian Baths), and new drummer Brian Alvarez (from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Peel Dream Magazine) has since joined after A Thousand Years In Another Way was recorded.

“In Another Way” opens the album, introducing its central themes of alienation and longing, framing a narrative about a person struggling with chaos while seeking meaningful connection. The song’s raw energy serves as a fitting entry point into the record’s unsteady, transformative world.

According to Travis Johnson, “In Another Way” is “a way of letting off a bunch of aggression, rage, and resentment at things not being the way they should be, both personal and global (wishing things were “another way”), and feeling completely impotent about it except when playing the song.”

“Evil is very real and having its way, and love is also real and hasn’t lost yet.”

That’s how Activity’s Travis Johnson described their third album, A Thousand Years In Another Way. A friend had asked why these songs seemed to capture the strange, heavy feeling of being alive right now better than anything else—and that was his answer. The album doesn’t try to explain this time we’re living in; it simply feels like it. It’s a mix of violence, alienation, and tenderness—reflecting the surreal, dreamlike (or nightmarish) rhythm of daily life.

Across ten songs, Activity blends experimental rock, electronics, and found sounds with a sense of paranoia, flickers of hope, and a warped reality. Working with producer Jeff Berner (Psychic TV), the band manipulated sounds and played with room acoustics to create a feeling that’s disorienting—like the air is thick and the walls are listening.

Coming out of a period of uncertainty, the Brooklyn-based quartet—Travis Johnson, Jess Rees, Bri DiGioia, and Steven Levine—pieced the album together from fragments: clipped samples, looping guitar lines, ghostly melodies. Rees, DiGioia, and Johnson share vocal and writing duties, shaping a record that feels both deeply personal and strangely alien. There’s a constant sense that things could shift or fall apart at any second—nothing stays one thing for long.

The lead single and opening track, “In Another Way,” sets the tone with its raw energy and unsettling refrain: “Who will marry me now? All the good husbands have drowned.” The feeling of instability continues with “We Go Where We’re Not Wanted,” a track built from layered samples and broken rhythms, evoking a society on the brink.

Throughout the album, vulnerability coexists with unease. “Piece of Mirror” offers a ghostly, minimalist moment, blending Herman Hesse-inspired lyrics with found sounds and a pulse that feels both innocent and ominous. “Good Memory” and “Her Alphabet” explore the dark side of lost innocence, while “Heavy Breathing” softens the mood with a tender nod to ‘80s synth-pop.

“Scissors” pairs heavy, crushing bass with light, sweet melodies, while “Your Dream” and “I Came Here to Harm You” lean into confrontation—diving into resentment and how it quietly creeps into everyday life, both personal and political.

The album closes with “A Beast,” a towering, ominous track inspired by Blood Meridian and the Book of Revelation. It reflects on the persistence of evil, but also dares to imagine its end. It’s a fitting conclusion for an album that exists in a bruised, disorienting, and strangely beautiful world.

A Thousand Years In Another Way might not offer answers, but it captures the feeling of right now better than most. And maybe, it sounds a bit like your world too.