Johnny Blue Skies, the present nom de plume of the singer previously often known as Sturgill Simpson, is eyeing a March 13 launch for his second studio album and first along with his band the Darkish Clouds, Mutiny After Midnight. The undertaking shall be launched solely on vinyl, CD and cassette by Excessive High Mountain Information/Atlantic Outpost.
Simpson beforehand launched his 2016 breakthrough, A Sailor’s Information to Earth, on Atlantic and says his return to the label is because of “new management and a brand new imaginative and prescient. It is a new and really totally different Atlantic Information than my final go-around. Largely, I’m very excited and honored to be working with my pricey buddy [Atlantic Outpost co-head] Ian Cripps, and to lastly convey to fruition a imaginative and prescient we initially shared collectively over ten years in the past. I wrote phrases to what’s occurring on the earth and my life in actual time, and performed with a bunch of musicians I deeply love and respect. Collectively, we made an album that could be very enjoyable and can hopefully provide some reduction from darkness on the earth.”
The brand new album was recorded at Black Keys member Dan Auerbach’s Simple Eye Sound studio in Nashville and sports activities materials that was written on the spot. “There’s a easy objective we as a band got down to obtain: to make a dance file,” Simpson says.
Mutiny After Midnight is the follow-up to Johnny Blue Skies’ 2024 debut, Passage du Desir. The artist toured extensively underneath the brand new moniker in 2025 and expressed frustration that live performance promoters insisted on his actual identify getting used to promote the exhibits. Thus far, no new tour dates have been introduced.
Right here is the monitor checklist for Mutiny After Midnight:
Make America Fuk Once more
Excited Delirium
Don’t Let Go
Keep on That
Viridescent
Scenario
Venus
Everybody Is Welcome
Ain’t {That a} Bitch
