Action/Adventure Reveal New Album “Imposter Syndrome”

Action/Adventure shouldn’t be here. At least, that’s what the Chicago-based five-piece seems to think. They’re wrong, very wrong, but that’s the overriding theme of their debut album. That’s partly why they named their new full length, Imposter Syndrome, because when the band signed to Pure Noise Records, they couldn’t quite believe it.

The band’s feeling of imposter syndrome runs deeper than just mentioned.  Namely, because they’re an entirely BIPOC band in the pop-punk scene, which automatically adds an extra layer of depth and uneasiness to everything. Action/Adventure are acutely aware their existence is nevertheless important in terms of visibility. They’re just also keen to stress that their initial intentions were all music-focused, and that it’s chance, not design, that they’re all BIPOC.  

“Those two parts have to co-exist on completely even playing fields,” explains Jackson. “One can’t really outshine the other. Growing up in the scene, I almost felt like a pariah–I could count the amount of other black people going to shows on one hand.  One of them is Adrian!  You’d always see the same four or five other black people at shows, so you get to know each other.  So it’s important to not lose sight of that, but also don’t want us to be a token band.  We’re just a band. We’re a group of people playing music that we like to listen to and that we like to write–and we just all happen to be people of color. It was an accident, it wasn’t planned.” (vocalist Blake Evaristo)