What If Nothing

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What If Nothing
Walk the Moon, What if Nothing.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 10, 2017
Recorded2017
Length
  • 55:46 (streaming edition)
  • 58:01 (physical edition)
Label RCA
Producer
  • Mike Crossey
  • Mike Elizondo
  • Captain Cuts
Walk the Moon chronology
Talking Is Hard
(2014)
What If Nothing
(2017)
Heights
(2021)
Singles from What If Nothing
  1. "One Foot"
    Released: September 22, 2017
  2. "Kamikaze"
    Released: April 17, 2018

What If Nothing is the fourth studio album by American rock band Walk the Moon. It was released on November 10, 2017, by RCA Records. [1] The first single released from the album was "One Foot" on September 22, 2017. [1] Walk the Moon embarked on the North American Press Restart Tour in support of the album, [2] beginning on November 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina. [3] They released the first promotional single "Headphones" on October 13, 2017. [4] The second promotional single "Surrender" was released on October 27, 2017. [5] This is the last studio album to feature bassist Kevin Ray, who parted ways with the band in 2020. The album follows-up their previous album Talking is Hard (2014). [6]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Walk the Moon (Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman). Additional co-writers noted below.

What If Nothing [7]
No.TitleWriter(s)ProducerLength
1."Press Restart" 4:20
2."Headphones" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
3:07
3."One Foot"
4:21
4."Surrender"
  • Berger
  • McMahon
  • Crossey
  • Captain Cuts
5:04
5."All I Want" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
4:16
6."All Night" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
3:43
7."Kamikaze"
  • Rabin
  • Berger
  • McMahon
  • Elizondo
  • Captain Cuts
3:17
8."Tiger Teeth" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
5:23
9."Sound of Awakening" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
6:16
10."Feels Good to Be High" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
4:21
11."Can't Sleep (Wolves)" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
3:46
12."In My Mind" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
3:57
13."Lost in the Wild" 
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
3:55
Total length:55:46
Physical edition
No.TitleWriter(s)ProducerLength
13."Lost in the Wild" (Contains the hidden track "In My Mind (Acoustic)" after 15 seconds of silence)
  • Petricca
  • Ray
  • Waugaman
  • Maiman
  • Crossey
  • Elizondo
6:16

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for What If Nothing
Chart (2017)Peak
position
New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ) [8] 8
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [9] 60
US Billboard 200 [10] 40
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [11] 3
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [12] 5

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