As I posted last year, Acceptance, the Seattle-based alternative pop-rockers which released their first full length album, Phantoms, 11 years ago on Columbia Records, reunited after a ten year hiatus to work on brand new music.

Acceptance took money from the shows they were playing and invested it into self-funding their sophomore record; then they booked the top-producer Aaron Sprinkle (Anberlin, Kutless, Number One Gun) and started writing songs; as those funds started to get low, the band partnered with PledgeMusic and people pre-ordering the record helped them finish it.

Colliding By Design was finally released last February 24 via Rise Records. After all this year, the sound of Acceptance is surely matured; the songs show a more polished songwriting, more depth, smooth refrains and some (mandatory, in these days) 80's influences.

A few single/videos were lifted off the new album: Diagram Of A Simple Man (watch an amazing acoustic performance of the song here) , Haunted and the new one, Fire And Rain: watch the just released video clicking on the image, and, as ususal, stream the whole record on Spotify.