Jim O'Rourke's long-time label Drag City has released a teaser video for a new release called Simple Songs from the influential artist. His last conventional full-length was 2009's The Visitor, which wasn't very conventional at all considering it was a 38-minute orchestral piece. You'd have to go back 14 years to the release of Insignificance for his last record that included traditional pop/rock songs. But O'Rourke has kept busy in the intermittent years, uploading an extensive unreleased back catalog to Bandcamp, putting out a Burt Bacharach tribute album, and contributing to various film scores and collaborative albums.
UPDATE 4/9: Drag City has shared some more details about the new album: It'll be out 5/19 and will have 8 tracks. Check out the album artwork, a tracklist, and a new teaser video below. Here's the album's official description: "There ARE no simple songs — only simple people. And since guns don't kill people, Simple Songs will have to do. Super-sweet terrorism from our very own latter-day Spector!"
Tracklist:
01 "Friends With Benefits"
02 "That Weekend"
03 "Half Life Crisis"
04 "Hotel Blue"
05 "These Hands"
06 "Last Year"
07 "End Of The Road"
08 "All Your Love"
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Preorder Simple Songs here.
