The Academy Is... "Almost There" 2025-10-17 the band quickly garnered an

the band quickly garnered an international fanbase and followed up their new success with 1985’s Bites

gentleness and power

By 2018's Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life they'd stepped up to arenas around the world

had been on pandemic hiatus with no idea if they’d continue

and Baxter had just stopped from a rapturously received set on The Park Stage at Glastonbury festival

The Academy Is... "Almost There" 2025-10-17 the band quickly garnered anIf I never make it home, thank you for everything. Ten Years Its hard to believe twenty years have passed since The Academy Is released their breakthrough debut Almost Here, a record that quietly shaped an underground era. In the years since, the band grew up, lived full lives, and ultimately found their way back. Almost There serves as a conceptual companion to their debut, reexamining the past from the present with clarity, reflection, and