New album from Matt Costa on the way in September

Dangerbird Records will release Yellow Coat (pre-order/pre-save), the next album by Southern California singer-songwriter Matt Costa on Sept. 11. "Avenal," the opening track, was conceived and written on a trip a few hundred miles northeast of LA and was written from a "searching" place in which Costa was both running away from something and trying to find himself at the same time.

Watch the animated stop motion music video for it, created by Costa in his home with the help of multimedia artist Minh Pham on YouTube HERE, and stream the track on all platforms HERE.

At the time that Costa started writing, he had stripped things down considerably, not only emotionally but in terms of his surroundings. He had moved into a Laguna Beach studio apartment with just the bare minimum of furniture and instruments. Instead of a bedside table, a Wurlitzer Sideman drum machine stands.

After connecting with producer Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, At the Drive-In), the songs of Yellow Coat took shape with Costa enlisting the help of touring musicians and friends from afar.

“My songs have always been something that transcends a feeling into something that is healing,” Costa says. “I hope listeners and fans find these songs as personal and honest as they are to me.”

Track listing:

Avenal

Slow
Make That Change
Let Love Heal
Last Love Song
Jet Black Lake
Savannah
Broken Eros (Interlude)
Yellow Coat
Sky Full Of Tears
When The Avalanche Comes
So I Say Goodbye