Alt-folk duo The Lumineers have announced the release date for their upcoming fifth studio album, Automatic, will be February 14, 2025. In the meantime, the "Ho Hey" artists previewed their follow-up to 2022’s Brightside on Tuesday (January 7) with the LP’s first single, “Same Old Song.”
The song’s release is accompanied by a video directed by filmmaker Anaïs LaRocca (Hundred Waters), in which singer/guitarist Wesley Schultz and drummer Jeremiah Fraites perform their new song on a soundstage. They're backed by evocative VHS-like videos echoing the single's lyrics.
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In an album press statement, Schultz said the record marks 20 years of his songwriting partnership with Fraites. “The album explores some of the absurdities of the modern world, like the increasingly blurry line between what’s real and what’s not, and the variety of ways we numb ourselves while trying to combat both boredom and overstimulation,” he said, noting the LP was recorded in “less than a month.”
The statement added the album will find the duo “traveling new sonic and thematic terrain with their most raw and personal collection thus far.” It notes that it was recorded with Woodstock, NY-based producer/songwriter/ keyboardist David Baron, who “outfitted Woodstock’s Utopia studio like the legendary Abbey Road facility, installing both vintage and cutting-edge gear,” where the pair performed the song “as a unit, leaving fewer opportunities to fix mistakes, or refine the sound.”
To capture that live magic, they outfitted the studio with two sets of drums, three pianos and an array of amps, guitars and vocal mics, “allowing the musicians to pivot and capture as much as possible with minimal delay.”
The Lumineers are slated to kick off a tour in support of the album on Saturday (January 11). You can find more info about tickets and dates here.
Watch the video for “Same Old Song” below.
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Article Image: The Lumineers perform at a concert in 2022. (DiegoVigueras [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons)
