I Want That You Are Always Happy is the debut studio album by Australian folk band The Middle East, released in Australia and New Zealand through Spunk Records on 8 April 2011.

[1] Mark Myers' Cairns studio was built by the band and it was where they recorded a majority of the album.

[2] The band members did consider self-producing the record however found they had a lack of experience and knowledge in production.

And maybe that's just how we work and we haven't come to terms with it yet, but it's definitely not the best process for writing an album.

"[7] Jordan Ireland was critical about the album: "With this album I don't really feel like we nailed it, we're definitely falling into a lot of categories that've been done before and I don't feel like it's anything completely original or anything like that, but that's kind of the goal that we're heading towards.