{"id":2506893,"date":"2026-07-18T02:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2506893"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:25:56","slug":"listen-to-this-new-music-from-leon-bridges-fifth-studio-album-happiness-anytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/listen-to-this-new-music-from-leon-bridges-fifth-studio-album-happiness-anytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to this new music from Leon Bridges&#8217; fifth studio album, &#8216;Happiness Anytime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For his next album, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leonbridges.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Bridges<\/a> is going international.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth-bred Grammy winner pulled the wraps off his fifth studio album Friday. It\u2019s called <i>Happiness Anytime<\/i>, the follow-up to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kxt.org\/2024\/08\/watch-new-video-of-leon-bridgess-latest-single-peaceful-place\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">2024\u2019s\u00a0<i>Leon<\/i><\/a>. In a break from past rollouts, Bridges is dropping the album in three phases, with the full 12-song collection available on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of new songs \u2014 \u201cLight the Way,\u201d \u201cTears of Joy,\u201d \u201cIllusion\u201d and \u201cYour Love is Electric\u201d \u2014 are out now, and you can listen to all four below. The next drop will be Aug. 21, and the final four-song cache arrives Sept. 25, the day of the full album\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leon Bridges - Light the Way (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cBQYANdjiP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leon Bridges - Tears of Joy (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdZoIGD826Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leon Bridges - Illusion (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWS0z8XoRlY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leon Bridges - Your Love Is Electric (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZirW1k2_pSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I always tell the staff, the last words of a dying radio station are &#8216;You always have done it this way,&#8217; and I think Leon has kind of taken that into the music side of things,&#8221; said Benji McPhail, KXT program director, on the July 17 episode of NTX Now. &#8220;He continues to evolve on every single record. You never know what you&#8217;re going to get, and man, I was not expecting this, but it&#8217;s really good.&#8221; (You can hear KXT&#8217;s McPhail and Lesley James discuss Happiness Anytime <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kera.org\/ntxnow\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23971228034&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAqH1LEY30YSDe1bxisut1e3ON2Lf4&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwpefSBhBvEiwAzyEtZ-zreRDbI4af9gKs8eXDpQc5dSGJbGrnVK2_7yqCtGI_YYiSrHIyZhoCvr4QAvD_BwE\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The project is produced by Josh Lloyd-Watson and Lydia Kitto, two-thirds of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.junglejunglejungle.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOool_C_SxZ9dJ-_psFXDWFMBpCzTuhwNhdobZ61zX4Sg6VDAhV6I\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">British neo-soul band Jungle<\/a>, and features Pino Palladino on bass. (Kitto is a guest vocalist on the seventh track, \u201cAll Day, All Night.\u201d) Bridges focused on feeling and vocal performance, Lloyd-Watson shaped production and arrangements and Kitto weighed in on harmonic detail and melodic intuition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst thought is the best thought,\u201d Lloyd-Watson said in a statement. \u201cThat\u2019s where the emotion is. Anything after that becomes intellectualized, and that\u2019s not really where music excels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, one of Bridges&#8217; greatest skills is his willingness and ability to freely collaborate with an eclectic array of musicians, and this latest effort plays directly into that strength. Happiness Anytime finds Bridges once again expanding his sonic palette, reaching back to the dance-oriented songs of 2018\u2019s Good Thing but incorporating Afrobeat, South American rhythms, disco and soul to a degree he has not previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, happiness is not a feeling that you chase,\u201d Bridges said in a statement. \u201cI want this album to be something that lingers with people and lingers in people\u2019s bones. There\u2019s this feeling that we have to fix the problems of the world; you feel inadequate or it can be debilitating. My role is to be light. I hope that comes across with this album.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">Get ready to dance<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s certainly an infectious buoyancy to the first quartet of songs on offer, finding Bridges, a long-time aficionado of dance, embracing rhythm as well as shaking up his live presentation: These new songs will be presented in concert with a vinyl-spinning DJ, horn section and three backing vocalists, a pivot away from the R&amp;B revue-style band he\u2019s toured with for much of his career to date.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges connected with Lloyd-Watson and Kitto at various festivals around the world, and as a one-off writing session yielded six songs, the trio found themselves in a recording studio in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeon said he wants to have music that he can dance to,\u201d Kitto said in a statement. \u201cHe wants to have moments where he can put the guitar down and just dance and perform at the front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to putting the finishing touches on Happiness Anytime, Bridges popped up on a few singles throughout 2025, including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kxt.org\/2025\/07\/leon-bridges-hermanos-gutierrez-join-forces-on-new-single-elegantly-wasted\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">Hermanos Guiterrez\u2019s \u201cElegantly Wasted.\u201d<\/a> He also recently made a cameo during Shaboozey\u2019s Tiny Desk Concert, alongside fellow Texan Sarah Jarosz. You can watch Bridges\u2019 duet with Shaboozey on \u201cBurn It Down\u201d below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shaboozey: Tiny Desk Concert\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEqGjypP5qY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '310883543495549',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.keranews.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his next album, Leon Bridges is going international. The Fort Worth-bred Grammy winner pulled the wraps off his fifth studio album Friday. It\u2019s called Happiness Anytime, the follow-up to 2024\u2019s\u00a0Leon. In a break from past rollouts, Bridges is dropping the album in three phases, with the full 12-song collection available on Sept. 25. 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