Mind behind City and Colour, acclaimed singer, songwriter, and performer Dallas Green, has just announced his 6th studio album A Pill For Loneliness due out on October 4 on Green’s newly minted Still Records.
Coming into the light alongside its siblings, previously released tracks ‘Astronaut’ and ‘Strangers’, is the new debut single ‘Living in Lightning’. The song acts as the brand new albums opening track. A Pill For Loneliness is the highly anticipated follow-up to the incredibly successful 2015 album If I Should Go Before You, and has been produced by three-time Grammy winner Jacquire King, who was worked with Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones and Tom Waits.
This next album is set to be coming in at eleven tracks long, as City and Colour balances the delicate extremities of eloquence and energy, bow at the ready, aimed at our hearts, a quiver full of lush guitars set to strike us all down. Ethereal orchestration is something one can come to expect with any Dallas Green project, and A Pill For Loneliness will not disappoint at all in that regards, based on everything we’ve heard so far.
Listen to new track ‘Living In Lightning’ below:
“I wrote a lot of dark songs and wrapped them in the most beautiful sounds we could find,” Green explains. “There are personal connotations, but they’re also relatable. I’m thankful for the opportunity to create.”
From the slow-burning build-up of the opening track, “Living in Lightning”, which borrows its title from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, to the splendid ends of the piano-driven album closer ‘Lay Me Down’, A Pill For Loneliness has come to medicate our isolation, and numb our senses of longing and lust.
Previously released single ‘Strangers’ never relents in taking all of our heartstrings and playing them like a fine-tuned instrument, and its music video ensures we get the message loud and clear, washing us over in imagery soaked with bittersweet reality.
Watch the video for ‘Strangers’ below:
