’90s survivors Semisonic have announced Little Bit of Sun, their first album since 2001’s All About Chemistry, which will be out November 3 via Pleasuresonic Recordings. The album was made in the band’s native Minneapolis and features contributions from Jason Isbell and My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James.
“My approach as an artist has always been to write from where I am now,” says frontman and songwriter Dan Wilson. “It’s been two decades since Semisonic made a full record together, so it was interesting to write from the perspective of returning to the band and finding it inspiring but very different. I couldn’t help but think about the early days, about the formative influences that shaped and inspired us, but a lot of the songs are about the present moment in my life.”
The new single off the album is the anthemic “The Rope.” Says Wilson, “I knew it was good, but I wasn’t so sure ‘The Rope’ was a Semisonic song – until we ran through it in rehearsal and it roared from beginning to end like a freight train passing by. The lyrics are like an ode to Los Angeles disguised as a breakup-with-regrets song – a lot of songwriters would love to break up with LA so it makes sense to me.” You can watch the video below.
Little Bit Of Sun:
1) Little Bit of Sun
2) The Rope
3) Grow Your Own
4) Don’t Fade Away
5) Keep Me In Motion
6) All The Time
7) If You Say So
8) Out of the Dirt
9) It Wasn’t Like We Hoped It Would Be
10) So Amazed
11) Only Empathy
12) Beautiful Sky
