Pete
Yorn has just unleashed 'Back and Fourth' marking a new musical chapter in which
the acclaimed singer and songwriter has taken a different approach to writing
and recording with stunning results. 'Back and Fourth' follows Yorn's first three
albums, which he considers a trilogy, and is his first album in three years. The
first single from the album is 'Don't Wanna Cry'.
Yorn wrote
all ten songs on 'Back and Fourth' and recorded the album in Omaha, NE, with producer
Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley). Columbia's Co-Chairman Rick Rubin helped
guide the project from its earliest demo stages to final mastering.
The
songs on 'Back and Fourth' range from lilting mandolin lullabies to bracing anthems.
But there's a thread running through the album - an organic feel to the arrangements,
a careful pacing to the sequence, a penetrating truth to the stories - that's
unmatched by anything else in Yorn's catalogue.
'Back and Fourth'
is Yorn's fourth studio album and follows on from the critically acclaimed albums
'Nightcrawler', 'Day I Forgot' and 'musicforthemorningafter'. 'Back and Fourth'
is like no other Pete Yorn record - for the first time, Yorn wrote lyrics before
composing melodies, resulting in his most personal songs to date. When it came
time to record, Yorn traded the family, friends and routines of his life in Los
Angeles for the relative solitude of Omaha, where he spent two months in 2008
making the album. And while Yorn played virtually all the instruments on his first
three albums, he assembled a top shelf band for 'Back and Fourth', including drummer
Joey Waronker (Beck), pianist/arranger Nate Wolcott (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo
Kiley), guitarist Jonny Polonsky, bassist Joe Karnes (John Cale), and backing
vocalist Orenda Fink (Azure Ray).
"That's the essential
approach to the new album," says Yorn. "I wanted to share my songs with
a group of players who I respected, and then share the experience of recording
them together as a group."
PETE YORN 'BACK AND FOURTH'
TRACK LISTING:
1. Don't Wanna Cry
2. Paradise Cove
3.
Close
4. Social Development
5. Shotgun
6. Last Summer
7. Thinking
of You
8. Country
9. Four Years
10. Long Time
'Back
And Fourth' is available now.
