The Get Up Youngsters and the New Amsterdams vocalist Matt Pryor has introduced a brand new solo album. The Salton Sea is due out Nov. 14 through Nightshoes Syndicate/Large Scary Monsters. It’s his seventh solo album, and it’s self-produced, with mixing and extra manufacturing by Peter Katis. See the duvet artwork and tracklist under.
“The story that these songs inform is about that point in my life,” Pryor says. “Autumn rolling into spring as a result of the winter was a blackout. How the nice instances had been nice till sooner or later they weren’t. How I misplaced myself and damage people who I care about. How I received assist that didn’t stick and the way I misplaced religion within the assist that did. That I got here out on the opposite aspect of the entire ordeal solely to comprehend I’m nonetheless a piece in progress, that all of us are.”
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He’s shared the title monitor, and you may watch the video, directed by Josh Berwanger, under. “Three years in the past, I used to be within the darkest place of my life, and this tune actually displays that point. I used to be misplaced, alone, and felt forgotten – I simply needed to vanish,” he says. “I began writing tales about that point in my life, and people tales grew to become songs, and people songs grew to become The Salton Sea.”

Matt Pryor – The Salton Sea tracklist
1. “The Salton Sea”
2. “Barrymores”
3. “The Imperfectionist”
4. “Union Switch”
5. “The Dishonesty”
6. “Harden Your Coronary heart”
7. “Maria”
8. “I Don’t Pray”
9. “Darken My Door”
10. “Doubt”