John Mellencamp will launch his twenty fifth album, Orpheus Descending, on June 25.
The singer and songwriter is previewing the 11-song set with album opener “Hey God.” The nervy, slide guitar-driven music finds Mellencamp asking for deliverance from rampant gun violence.
“Weapons and weapons, are they actually my rights? / Legal guidelines written a very long time in the past / Nobody may think about the sight of so many useless on the ground,” he laments, earlier than beseeching: “Hey, God, should you’re nonetheless there, would you please come down? We won’t take it anymore.”
You possibly can watch the lyric video for “Hey God” and see the total Orpheus Descending monitor itemizing beneath. The album is obtainable to preorder now on CD, vinyl and digital.
Orpheus Descending follows Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, which Mellencamp launched in January 2022. The LP featured three collaborations with Bruce Springsteen, who additionally joined Mellencamp in a rousing tribute to the late Jerry Lee Lewis on the 2022 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony.
Mellencamp additionally took to the rostrum on the Rock Corridor inductions to have a good time leisure lawyer Allen Grubman and explicitly condemn antisemitism. “I can not inform you how fuckin’ vital it’s to talk out should you’re an artist, in opposition to antisemitism, in opposition to all types of hate speech,” he stated. “We’re all human beings. I do not give a fuck should you’re Jewish, Black, white, tutti frutti, I do not care. Here is the trick: Silence is complicity. … Fuck antisemitism and fuck anyone who says something in that method.”
John Mellencamp, ‘Orpheus Descending’ Monitor Itemizing
1. “Hey God”
2. “The Eyes of Portland”
3. “Land of the So Known as Free”
4. “The Kindness of Lovers”
5. “Amen”
6. “Orpheus Descending”
7. “Understated Reverence”
8. “One Extra Trick”
9. “Lightning and Luck”
10. “Excellent World”
11. “Spine”
John Mellencamp Albums Ranked
A pre-fab pop singer turned heartland rocker turned rootsy moralist, John Mellencamp has had virtually as many profession turns as names.
