Ray LaMontage has released the title track from his upcoming album ‘Long Way Home'.
‘Long Way Home', the album, will arrive on 16th August 2024 but fans can now hear the title track as they patiently wait. The title track is a somber, bittersweet rumination on times past. Take a listen below:
‘Long Way Home' is the follow-up to previous single ‘Step Into Your Power', which was released last month. It was accompanied by a stop-motion music video animated by his son Tobias and it features choral backing vocals from The Secret Sisters.
LaMontagne reflects, “Thirty years later it occurs to me that every song on ‘Long Way Home' is in one way or another honoring the journey. The languorous days of youth and innocence. The countless battles of adulthood, some won, more often lost. It's been a long hard road, and I wouldn’t change a minute. It took me nine songs to express what Townes managed to say in one line. I guess I still got a lot to learn.”
Produced in tandem with Seth Kauffman (Floating Action, Angel Olsen, Lana Del Ray), ‘Long Way Home’s nine moving tracks recall the folk-rock explosion of the early seventies, while aptly sitting among the modern Americana revival that LaMontagne was integral in fueling. Recorded over the course of a few weeks in his home studio, LaMontagne tapped both long-time and new collaborators across the record – The Secret Sisters provide backing vocals on the first three tracks, while the album was engineered and mixed by the team of LaMontagne, Kauffman, and Ariel Bernstein.
The album artwork is a woodblock print by artist Barbara S. Beck, which hangs above LaMontagne’s desk where he’s written most of his albums.
