The songwriter launched an in-the-studio album trailer narrated by ESPN’s Wright Thompson
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have a brand new album on faucet. On Monday, the songwriter and his document label, Southeastern Data, launched a teaser video that captures Isbell and his bandmates recording within the studio.
Narrated by ESPN’s Wright Thompson, the two-minute clip guarantees Isbell’s “newest assortment of grown-up songs” will arrive someday this 12 months. A strip of tape above the recording console reveals titles like “Dying Want,” “White Beretta,” “Volunteer,” and “Solid Iron Skillet,” tracks that Thompson describes as “songs about grownup love, about change, concerning the hazard of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and remorse and redemption.” These are, he says, “life and demise songs performed for and by grown-ass folks.”
Isbell is proven enjoying guitar and interacting along with his longtime bandmates within the 400 Unit — drummer Chad Gamble, bassist Jimbo Hart, keyboardist Derry Deborja, guitarist Sadler Vaden, and generally member Amanda Shires (Isbell’s spouse and the solo artist behind final 12 months’s excellent Take It Like a Man). There’s one noticeable absence nevertheless: It’s Isbell who’s seen sitting behind the board, not producer Dave Cobb, who oversaw Isbell’s final 4 albums of unique materials. (Isbell himself produced 2020’s Georgia Blue covers mission; no phrase but on who produced the upcoming LP.)
Isbell and the 400 Unit return to the street on March 1 with a run of reveals in Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
Anticipate extra on the brand new album quickly, which, as Thompson says within the video, “lands like a decoder ring within the ears and hearts of [Isbell’s] viewers, a soundtrack to his world, after which magically to theirs too.”