The ’90s sha-la-la veterans Counting Crows have been developing on this web site so much currently, largely as a result of individuals hold masking “A Lengthy December.” (In the meantime, Counting Crows themselves are out right here masking Taylor Swift.) Lately, Counting Crows are best-remembered for his or her ’90s radio bangers and, to a lesser extent, for that one Shrek 2 track. However they’re nonetheless lively as a band, they usually’ve simply introduced their first new studio album in additional than a decade.
This spring, Counting Crows will launch a brand new album known as Butter Miracle: The Full Sweets! — exclamation level theirs. It’s their first since 2014’s Someplace Over Wonderland. You may’ve seen that the brand new LP’s title and canopy artwork are a lot sillier than what we usually count on from this band, Shrek 2 soundtrack however. The identical is true of their lead single “Spaceman In Tulsa.” It’s mainly a vivid, shiny power-pop track, albeit one delivered via Adam Duritz’s distinctly tremulous moan.
Duritz says that the brand new single is “about metamorphosis — the best way music breaks down who we have been and spins us into one thing new. It’s about damaged lives changing into one thing higher.” It’s additionally about being a motherfuckin’ rock ‘n’ roll star, a topic that Duritz understands higher than most of us. Beneath, take a look at the live-in-studio “Spaceman In Tulsa” video and the Butter Miracle tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 “With Love, From A-Z”
02 “Spaceman In Tulsa”
03 “Boxcars”
04 “Virginia By The Rain”
05 “Below The Aurora”
06 “The Tall Grass”
07 “Elevator Boots”
08 “Angel Of 14th Road”
09 “Bobby And The Rat-Kings”
Butter Miracle: The Full Sweets! is out 5/9 by way of BMG. Try our We’ve Obtained A File On You interview with Adam Duritz right here.