Lumineers Preview fifth Album, ‘Computerized,’ With ‘Similar Outdated Track’ Unmarried

Alt-folk duo The Lumineers have introduced that the discharge date for his or her upcoming 5th studio album, Computerized, which is due out on February 14 on Dualtone. The Denver crew made out of singer/guitarist Wesley Schultz and drummer Jeremiah Fraites previewed their follow-up to 2022’s Brightside on Tuesday (Jan. 7) with the LP’s rollicking first unmarried, “Similar Outdated Track.”

“Good day Mama would you pay my hire/ Would you let me crash on your basement/ ‘Motive someone people may just make it large or may just finally end up useless at the pavement/ And if i used to be to die/ If the airplane went down and also you survived,” Schultz sings over Fraites’ insistent, metronomic beat.

The monitor then soars to a craving, aching top at the refrain, on which Schultz keens, “Standard track/ We sing the similar outdated track/ We sing the similar outdated, standard track.” The track’s free up used to be accompanied through a video directed through filmmaker Anaïs LaRocca (Hundred Waters), through which the pair carry out it on a soundstage sponsored through evocative VHS-like movies echoing the lyrics.

In a observation pronouncing the album, Schultz stated it marks twenty years of his songwriting partnership with Fraites. “The album explores one of the absurdities of the trendy international, just like the increasingly more blurry line between what’s actual and what’s now not, and the number of tactics we numb ourselves whilst looking to battle each boredom and overstimulation,” he stated, noting that the LP used to be recorded in “lower than a month.”

The observation provides that the album will in finding the duo “touring new sonic and thematic terrain with their maximum uncooked and private assortment up to now.” It notes that it used to be recorded with Woodstock, NY-based manufacturer/songwriter/ keyboardist David Baron, who “geared up Woodstock’s Utopia studio just like the mythical Abbey Highway facility, putting in each antique and state of the art tools,” the place the pair carried out the track “as a unit, leaving fewer alternatives to mend errors, or refine the sound.”

To seize that are living magic, they geared up the studio with two units of drums, 3 pianos and an array of amps, guitars and vocal mics, “permitting the musicians to pivot and seize up to imaginable with minimum extend.”

The Lumineers are slated to kick off the excursion in improve of the album on Saturday (Jan. 11) with a gig on the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, CA on the iHeartRadio ALTer EGO display, adopted through their very own headlining gig on the Fallsview On line casino Hotel in Niagara Falls, ON on February 16.

Watch the “Similar Outdated Track” video and take a look at the Computerized monitor listing beneath.