St. Paul & The Broken Bones, who NPR Music has hailed as “one of the nation’s best live bands,” announce the release of their 6th studio album, the self-titled St. Paul & The Broken Bones, out on October 10th out via their own label Oasis Pizza Records, distributed by Thirty Tigers. The new album from the ever-evolving Southern-soul giants, signifies both a reinvention and a reunion, stretching out with the confident experimental spirit of The Alien Coast and (2022) and Angels in Science Fiction (2023), but with a warmer, accessible and fun sound that recalls the exuberance and buoyancy of their breakout debut, Half the City (2014). “It’s the outcome of the book we wrote with the last records,” Janeway says, “The self-titled album is what the band is now. I think the band in general feels reignited. I’ve had this conversation with bassist and co-founder Jesse Phillips, who said, ‘I don’t know where we can take this. But we have the opportunity to make any kind of record we want. Before, the band thought, ‘How far can we take it?'” Now? “It’s ‘What is the band great at? What lessons have we learned?’” St. Paul & The Broken Bones is available for pre-order on all formats here.
The band also shares St. Paul & the Broken Bones’s first single, “Sushi and Coca-Cola,” a psych-funk track that shines a light on a moment of domestic bliss. “I was sitting in my living room, drinking a Mexican Coca-Cola and having some sushi—as on-point as it can be—with my wife and little girl,” Janeway recalls. “I felt, ‘Man, this is a great place.’ You know how you have moments that feel like a warm bath’? This is one that me and Eg were writing, and I’d been saving it.’ I just like the way [the title] sang. I think everyone at first thought, ‘That’s weirdly specific.’ Had I just said ‘dinner and a drink,’ that doesn’t do it. We came up with this scenario about having a shit day but finding the comfort in that thing.” Listen to “Sushi and Coca-Cola” here and watch the music video repeatedly below.
