Jenny Lewis announces new album ‘Joy’All’ with new single ‘Psychos’

nme.com:

Jenny Lewis has announced details of her fifth studio album, ‘Joy’All’, and shared its latest single ‘Psychos’.Produced by Dave Cobb, the new album is due out on June 9 via Blue Note/EMI and follows 2019’s ‘On The Line’.

It was first previewed last year with the single ‘Puppy And A Truck’.Explaining how the album came together, Lewis said: “I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic… and then put them aside as the world shut down. […] Then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting workshop with a handful of amazing artists, hosted by Beck.“The challenge was to write one song every day for seven days, with guidelines from Beck.

The guidelines would be prompts like ‘write a song with 1-4-5 chord progression,’ ‘write a song with only cliches,’ or ‘write in free form style.’ The first song I submitted to the group was ‘Puppy and a Truck.’”Of working with Cobb, she added: “Dave works fast and we cut the bulk of the record with his incredible house band – Nate Smith, Brian Allen and Cobb on guitar, and myself on acoustic guitar & vocals – live on the floor in a couple of weeks.“Jess Wolfe came back to the studio to provide background vocals on the record and then Greg Leisz and Jon Brion added pedal steel, B-Bender guitar and Chamberlin, respectively, back in L.A..”Listen to ‘Psychos’ and see the artwork and tracklist for ‘Joy’All’ below.1. ‘Psychos’ 2. ‘Joy’All’ 3. ‘Puppy And A Truck’ 4. ‘Apples And Oranges’ 5. ‘Essence Of Life’ 6. ‘Giddy Up’ 7. ‘Cherry Baby’ 8. ‘Love Feel’ 9. ‘Balcony’ 10. ‘Chain Of Tears’Reviewing 2019’s ‘On The Line’, NME wrote: “‘On the Line’ toes many tightropes.