Sturgill Simpson is preserving good on his 2021 promise to launch solely 5 studio albums underneath his personal alias. Mutiny After Midnight, the second file by the singer-songwriter’s Johnny Blue Skies moniker, arrives March 13 through Atlantic Outpost on bodily codecs solely (vinyl, CD, cassette).
In a letter posted forward of the official announcement, Simpson says he and his band—now generally known as Johnny Blue Skies & the Darkish Clouds—“determined to make an album centered firmly on groove,” including that the songs on the album break down “into two classes—the darkish state of the world and the intense state of affection.” As for the title, Simpson notes, “this mutiny is admittedly extra in regards to the main dance. The dance of all creation. To be clear it’s a protest towards oppression and suppression, and the one tried & examined true antidote to that’s pure, unfiltered, unapologetic, relentless disco-hedonism.”
Additionally included within the press launch are Simpson’s lyrics from opening monitor “Make America Fuk Once more”:
Johnny Blue Skies launched their first album, Passage du Desir, in 2024. Simpson’s final album as Sturgill Simpson was 2021’s The Ballad of Dood & Juanita. You’ll be able to learn his full letter introducing Mutiny After Midnight, together with the brand new album tracklist, beneath.
Mutiny After Midnight:
01 Make America Fuk Once more
02 Excited Delirium
03 Don’t Let Go
04 Keep on That
05 Viridescent
06 Scenario
07 Venus
08 Everybody Is Welcome
09 Ain’t {That a} Bitch
What’s Behind the “Mutiny After Midnight?”
In a phrase, kinship…
Nearly all of this band has been on the street collectively on and on and off once more for over 13 years. We now have all grown generally collectively and generally aside. However we’ve by no means felt extra “collectively” than proper now. I couldn’t be happier.
That is the band I’ve dreamed about being in since center college. Final yr we did two full laps across the U.S. and a tour of Western Europe. Between gigs this previous September, we went right into a model new beautiful studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Impressed closely from countless hours on the bus watching outdated clips of the good fusion-funk band ’Stuff, and revisiting off-the-beaten-track idea data like Marvin Gaye’s “In Our Lifetime”, the place, in what appears to be like like the tip of the world, the artist’s response is, “Let’s dance and make love.”…we determined to make an album centered firmly on groove.
We began day by day from scratch with a primary groove, I wrote the songs and lyrics within the second on-the-spot, and everybody established their particular person components servicing the songs and never the person ego.
You’ll be able to break down the songs on this album into two categories-the darkish state of the world and the intense state of affection. Gentle lives in darkness simply as darkness lives in gentle. I’ve come to seek out over time that it’s far simpler to simply embrace contradictions slightly than trying to resolve them.
Therefore “Johnny Blue Skies & the Darkish Clouds”…
