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{{Infobox album
|Name name = II
|Type type = studio
|Artist artist = [[Bad Books (band)|Bad Books]]
|Cover cover = Bad Books II cover.jpg
|Released alt = October 9, 2012 =
|Recorded released = January–MarchOctober 9, 2012
| recorded = January–March 2012
|Genre = [[Folk rock]], [[indie rock]], [[alternative rock]]▼
|Length venue = =
| studio =
|Label = [[Triple Crown Records|Triple Crown]] ▼
▲|Genre genre = [[Folk rock]], [[indie rock]], [[alternative rock]]
|Producer =
|Reviews length = =
▲|Label label = [[Triple Crown Records|Triple Crown]]
|Last album = ''[[Bad Books (album)|Bad Books]]'' <br /> (2010) ▼
| producer = Andy Hull, Kevin Devine and Robert Mcdowell
|This album = '''''II'''''<br>(2012)
▲|Last album prev_title = ''[[Bad Books (album)|Bad Books]]'' <br /> (2010)
|Next album =
| Miscprev_year = =2010
| next_title = [[III (Bad Books album)|III]]
{{Singles
| next_year = 2019
| Name = II
| Type = studio
| single 1 = Forest Whitaker
| single 1 date = August 22, 2012
}}
}}
 
'''''II''''' is the second album from the [[folk rock|folk]]/[[indie rock]] collaboration project by [[folk music|folk]] artist [[Kevin Devine]] and members of [[indie rock]] band [[Manchester Orchestra]]. It was released on October 9, 2012, exactly two years after the band's [[Bad Books (album)|self-titled debut album]], on [[Triple Crown Records]]. Like the first album, the songs written were collaborations between [[Kevin Devine]] and [[Manchester Orchestra]]'s frontman [[Andy Hull]].
 
Announcement on the album's title, release date and new label took place on the band's [[Facebook]] page on August 12, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.underthegunreview.net/2012/08/12/bad-books-announce-new-record-sign-to-label/ |title=Bad Books Announce New Record, Sign to Label |publisher=Under the Gun Review |date=2012-08-12 |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://instagram.com/p/OPswybhqVM/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/OPswybhqVM |archive-date=2021-12-26 |url-access=registration|title=Photo by badbooksmusic • Instagram |publisher=Instagram.com |date= |accessdate=2013-06-19}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The next day, on August 13, the band streamed the first single off the album, "Forest Whitaker", for free on the [[Rolling Stone]] website, and on August 22, the single was released as an official digital single on [[iTunes]].<ref>http{{cite web |author=Natalie Morin |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-premiere-bad-books-strays-from-comfort-zone-on-forest-whitaker-20120813</ref> The|title=Song albumPremiere: featuresBad aBooks varietyStray ofFrom tunesComfort describedZone only as (and in the most biased form)on ''SuperForest freaking crazy mother-fucker tunesWhitaker'', catching&#124; onMusic theNews very|publisher=Rolling whimStone of|date=2012-08-13 a|accessdate=2013-06-19 certain|archive-date=2017-09-28 part of your brain|archive-url=https://web. This causes II to become an addiction not unlike cocaine, and have you return time and time again just to hear the power that Hull and Devine's voices combine to embed on your very soularchive. This effect can clearly be seen org/web/20170928042737/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-premiere-bad-books-strays-from the album's opening, ''The After Party'', and by ''No Sides'', one would assume they'd snorted all the goodness possible from the heavenly six-piece band. BUT WRONG, it continues to wretch you down until you are pleading to start over from opening right to ''Ambivalent Peaks'' and be comfort-zone-on-forest-whitaker-20120813 your knees in the beauty from such loyal simplicity (Yet complex, in the way you must take in so much power and unprocessed beauty). Wikipedia says it. It must be true.|url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
On September 19, 2012, the band streamed the song "It Never Stops", exclusively through [[AbsolutePunk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2895282 |title=ABSOLUTExclusive: Bad Books Song Premiere - News Article |publisher=AbsolutePunk.net |date= |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref>
== Track listing==
{{Track listing
{{Tracklist
| writing_credits = yes
| title1 = The After Party
| length1 = 3:33
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}}
== Personnel ==
*[[Kevin Devine]] - lead vocals, guitar, piano
*[[Andy Hull]] - lead vocals, guitar, piano
*[[Gobotron|Robert McDowell]] - lead guitar, backing vocals
*Chris Freeman - keyboards, backing vocals
*Jonathan Corley - bass
*Ben Homola - drums, percussion
 
== II: Revisited ==
On the 9th of October 2023, remixes of The After Party and It Never Stops were released using artwork which revealed the upcoming release of ''II: Revisited''. ''II: Revisited'' was released on the 20th of October 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=BAD BOOKS - Ii: Revisited [lp] (Blue & Yellow Vinyl) [embargo Till 10/9/2023] - Bad Books |url=https://www.vinyl.com.au/bad-books-ii-revisited-lp-blue-yellow-vinyl-embarg |website=Vinyl.com.au |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
 
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:2012 albums]] ▼
 
[[Category:Indie rock albums]]▼
▲[[Category:2012 albums]]
▲[[Category:IndieBad rockBooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Triple Crown Records albums]]
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