Indie rock stalwart Kevin Devine has a musical 'Albatross' arriving in March

New York-based songwriter and musician Kevin Devine announces his 10th full-length album, Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong, alongside its new single, "Albatross." Due out March 25, through Triple Crown Records, the forthcoming album is now available for pre-order.

Devine's career began in the early 2000's with the band Miracle Of 86. From there he struck out on his own, performing solo and with his ever-evolving backing collective, The Goddamn Band, eventually forming Bad Books with Manchester Orchestra. In 2015, Devine started his Devinyl Splits 7" series with Craig Finn, Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), David Bazan, The Front Bottoms, Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy) and more.

In addition to playing as a solo artist, Devine has served as a touring member of several bands and performed extensively and internationally with a range of other artists such as Frightened Rabbit, John K Samson and Julien Baker.

Created free of time constraints, the new album was written primarily from January 2019 to March 2020 and was largely worked on remotely. The album includes psych-folk, orchestral acoustic, lo-fi bedroom and indie-rock using an array of synths, varied frequencies, vocal effects, and found sounds, like bird songs and street proselytizers. In fact, the album begins with the voice of Devine's daughter, who gently recounts a dream, wrapping the work in a warm blanket of sincerity and humanity right from the start.

Speaking about the new single, Devine says, “'Albatross' is a hard reboot, a fragmented emptying-out for us strugglers whose life experience invalidates cookie-cutter solutions or miracle cures or 21st century coping mechanisms. Where do you turn for comfort when the generally accepted value system and discourse is this degraded and grotesque? Maybe letting go, and then more letting go, of the burden of communicating that for which no suitable words exist, of fumbling at ad-hoc answers to the unanswerable, of investing in a perverse and upside-down reality that encourages you to internalize the need to fix things you didn’t break."

Track listing:

01. Laurel Leaf (Anhedonia)
02. Override
03. How Can I Help You?
04. Swan Dive
05. Albatross
06. If I’m Gonna Die Here
07. Someone Else’s Dream
08. Hell Is An Impression of Myself
09. It’s A Trap!
10. Tried To Fall In Love (My Head Got In the Way)
11. Stitching Up the Suture