Damaged Bells, the on-again/off-again collaboration between The Shins’ James Mercer and producer Brian Burton (aka Hazard Mouse), is again with its first new single in three years. “We’re Not in Orbit But…” precedes Damaged Bells’ upcoming album Into the Blue, which is due from AWAL on a date to be introduced.
A real hybrid of Mercer and Burton’s particular person kinds, “We’re Not in Orbit But…” is a moody, mid-tempo track with a retro really feel, flecked by acoustic guitar, organ and synths. It’s Damaged Bells’ first launch because the 2019 one-off single “Good Luck.”
As for Into the Blue, it’s the follow-up to 2014’s After the Disco, which reached No. 5 on The Billboard 200. The group hasn’t carried out stay because the fall 2014 tour in help of that album.
Mercer and Burton have various different initiatives on their plate for the time being. As beforehand reported, The Shins are touring this summer season and fall in celebration of the twenty first anniversary of their Sub Pop debut, Oh, Inverted World, starting July 12 in San Francisco.
In the meantime, Burton is lastly releasing a collaborative album with The Roots’ Black Thought that has been within the works for greater than a decade. Cheat Codes arrives Aug. 12 from BMG.
