Insomnia

Insomnia is the first studio album made by The Bastards. It was released on August 3, 2018 on every music streaming platform. For the second time, CD Baby was the band's distributor and it featured a collaboration with Sophia Massad. Like last album, Shelby Criswell made the cover art for Insomnia.

Two singles were released from the album: "Deserve" on July 4, 2017 and "That Doesn't Happen" on March 26, 2018. However, "Lightning" was available to listen for Apple Music users on July 20, 2018.

Track Listing

 * 1) Sleep - 4:11
 * 2) What Good Am I - 4:44
 * 3) Cupid's Roaches - 3:39
 * 4) Lightning - 5:39
 * 5) That Doesn't Happen (ft. Sophia Massad) - 4:37
 * 6) Lambs - 2:46
 * 7) Blushed - 3:38
 * 8) Crush - 4:03
 * 9) Deserve - 4:17
 * 10) Way to Live - 3:49
 * 11) Gestapo - 4:28
 * 12) Insomnia - 5:25

Trivia

 * Johnny had been working with the song "Insomnia" since late 2016.
 * The recording of the album started in late August, 2017.
 * "Cupid's Roaches", "Lambs" and "Blushed" were songs that appeared in the Demo LP 2016.
 * On the Demo LP 2016, "Lambs" and "Blushed" were separate tracks that didn't transition into one another.
 * Originally, a transition from "Way to Live" to "Cupid's Roaches" was planned for the album, but was later cut from the recording.
 * You can hear this transition on their New Years with The Bastards video as well as in this video.
 * In "Lightning", Johnny talks about Mothica, a friend of his that moved away to become a musician.
 * "That Doesn't Happen" is the first song that had a saxophone as well as a featured artist.
 * In the intro of "That Doesn't Happen", Ethan can be heard saying: "Oh shit... oh shit... shaker". He said 'shaker' because Johnny was playing it while they were messing around during the recording of the song.
 * "Deserve" is the only song of the album that wasn't recorded by Johnny.
 * "Deserve's" single was removed from all platforms because the band realized they had a good thing going with cartoons, and the single had an actual picture, which they didn’t like how it looked.
 * The clocks ticking at the end of "Insomnia" match with the clocks ticking at the beginning of "Sleep", giving the impression that the album loops, the same way the cover art does.