Sturgill Simpson made one of the best albums of 2014 with Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, and he’s gearing up to release another new one this year called A Sailor’s Guide To Earth at his new home on Atlantic Records. Today, he’s debuted the lead single to that album on Zane Lowe’s Beats1 radio show, the vast “Brace For Impact.” In an interview with Lowe after the fact, Simpson said that he wanted to “wanted to sort of reverse engineer the song craft this time around.” Listen below.

A Sailor’s Guide To Earth is out later this year.