{"id":10420,"date":"2026-04-22T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/houndmouth-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:14:00","slug":"houndmouth-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/houndmouth-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Lenderman, Iron &amp; Wine Elevate Houndmouth\u2019s \u2018Lordy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/HOUNDMOUTH-LORDY-PROMO-MONTANA-07758.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Tommy Moore)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Southern Indiana-reared rockers Houndmouth will end a five-year break from releasing new music with the album<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/houndmouth.komi.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lordy<\/a><\/em>, which will be released July 10 on Dualtone Records. The title cut and \u201cTiger Blood\u201d can both be sampled below.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Brad Cook (Mavis Staples, Bon Iver), the album leans into uncluttered arrangements, raw performances and songs that feel lived-in rather than labored over. Frontman Matt Myers wrote much of the record at home while strumming a Martin acoustic in his kitchen as the sun came through the windows.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/boards-of-canada-album-details\/\">Boards Of Canada Lights A New \u2018Inferno\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/secretly-canadian-30th-anniversary\/\">Secretly Celebrating 30th With Bloomington Gigs<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/newport-jazz-lineup\/\">Herbie, Kamasi, Thundercat Top Loaded Newport Jazz<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"Wyk7Ai__a8g\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That shift wasn\u2019t just aesthetic. For a stretch of nearly two years, Myers says he couldn\u2019t write at all. \u201cI was all raw emotion,\u201d he explains. After a decade of steady output, including the platinum-certified 2015 single \u201cSedona,\u201d the usual songwriting instincts dried up. Life didn\u2019t slow down though, as relationships ended, new ones began and the emotional backlog made it harder, not easier, to create. \u201cI was feeling so much that I just couldn\u2019t write anything,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came during a visit to Cook, who had previously worked with the band on its prior album, 2021\u2019s <em>Good for You<\/em>. What started as a casual reconnection turned into a creative jumpstart. Songs began to take shape quickly, including early standouts like \u201cTiger Blood,\u201d a ragged folk-rock build that crescendos into a full-throated release, and the hushed, intimate title track.<\/p>\n<p>During recording, Myers would bring a song into Cook\u2019s North Carolina studio, cut a one-take acoustic version and build outward from there. \u201cI told myself not to get lost in the mechanics or the minutia,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I had an idea, I just wanted to record it as quickly as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acting as both producer and sounding board, Cook helped assemble a sympathetic cast of collaborators drawn from the modern Americana and indie orbit. Iron &amp; Wine\u2019s Sam Beam dropped in during sessions for the closing track \u201cHoly Moses,\u201d while MJ Lenderman contributed his guitar work across multiple songs. Brad\u2019s brother Phil Cook also appears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent years working with peers and contemporaries,\u201d Myers enthuses, \u201cbut this felt different. I was surrounded by people who were literally trying to pick me up and help me out. They pushed me to do the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"Lt-ZuOMpWPs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Tommy Moore) Southern Indiana-reared rockers Houndmouth will end a five-year break from releasing new music with the album Lordy, which will be released July 10 on Dualtone Records. 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