{"id":3189,"date":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mitch-rowland-new-album\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","slug":"mitch-rowland-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mitch-rowland-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Rowland Is \u2018Ready\u2019 For His Second Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Mitch-Rowland-Lead-Press-Photo-by-Luke-Atkinson-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Grammy-winning Harry Styles collaborator Mitch Rowland will release his second album, <em>Whistling Pie<\/em>, on Sept. 12 through Styles\u2019 Erskine Records\/Giant Music. The banjo-flavored lead single \u201cReally Ready\u201d is based on an idea Rowland started back in 2017 and only rediscovered while deleting old videos from his phone.<\/p>\n<p>As with his 2023 debut, <em>Come June<\/em>, the new 13-track album was produced with Rob Schnapf, who is best known for his work with the late Elliott Smith and Beck. It was largely recorded nearby Rowland\u2019s remote English countryside home at the Welsh studio Rockfield, where Queen\u2019s \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d was once put to tape.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/lorde-opens-glastonbury\/\">Lorde Opens Glastonbury With Surprise \u2018Virgin\u2019 Set<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/stephen-bishop-final-album\/\">Stephen Bishop Jams With Yacht Rock Royalty On Final LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-robin-wilson-of-gin-blossoms\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:\u00a0Robin Wilson of\u00a0Gin\u00a0Blossoms<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cBoth records were written in the countryside, less so in cities,\u201d he says. \u201cLandscape and stillness are a huge part of why I wanted to pick up the guitar in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the past decade, Rowland has served as one of the guitarists in Styles\u2019 band and has been an integral collaborator with the pop star as a co-writer of hits such as \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d and \u201cGolden.\u201d Their friendship and onstage interactions have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AzW2h3CM_7c\" target=\"_blank\">hyped by stans<\/a>\u00a0for years, but Rowland\u2019s solo career only began coming into focus at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when he finally hit the studio to finish all the half-completed ideas stored on his phone.<\/p>\n<p>The folk-inspired, minimal sound of <em>Come June<\/em> \u201cwas a direct result of having two feet in the world of production with Harry, and for the last six or seven years, being able to chuck anything and everything into a song while working in the nicest places,\u201d Rowland told SPIN in 2023.<\/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=\"2nr1QOp3li4\" 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:\/\/www.spin.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>Grammy-winning Harry Styles collaborator Mitch Rowland will release his second album, Whistling Pie, on Sept. 12 through Styles\u2019 Erskine Records\/Giant Music. The banjo-flavored lead single \u201cReally Ready\u201d is based on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2159,2160,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harry-styles","category-mitch-rowland","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}