Band of Horses Announce New Album Why Are You OK
Band of Horses have announced their new album, Why Are You OK. The follow up to 2012′s Mirage Rock was produced by Grandaddy‘s Jason Lytle, and will be released this June, according to Entertainment Weekly. The announcement follows a scavenger hunt Band of Horses held in Austin last week to tease the album: During SXSW, the group scattered polaroids around the city labelled #YRUOK. The tracklist hasn’t been announced yet, but EW mentions that the opening track, “Dull Times,” is seven minutes long. Update (4:55 p.m.): Band of Horses have unveiled a few more details about the record over on their Instagram. Produced by Lytle and the band, Why Are You OK contains 12 songs, adding up to a total runtime of 50 minutes. It’s being released through Interscope and Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label. They’ve also confirmed that Rubin executive produced the album.
Speaking with EW, frontman Ben Bridwell revealed that he wrote many of the demos for the new record in the middle of the night so that he could tend to his four children by day. “I work all night and then take them to school in the morning,” he joked, adding, “I’m the fucking scariest dad in the school, I’m sure.” Bridwell also told EW that Rick Rubin was involved in helping make the album.
Why Are You OK has been in the works for quite some time. At the end of 2014, Band of Horses and Lytle released a Christmas song. Last year, Bridwell teamed up with Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam for the covers album Sing Into My Mouth.
This week marks the tenth anniversary of Band of Horses’ excellent debut Everything All The Time. Relive their clip for “Is There A Ghost:”
Correction (1:53 p.m.): A previous version of this story erroneously included a question mark at the end of the album title.
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