Pete Yorn to release new album in February

Pete Yorn releases his new, eponymously-titled album through Because Music on 7th February.

Produced by Frank Black, this visceral 11-song collection features the single 'Precious Stone', which will be available on 29th November. The album is the follow-up to last year's brace of releases; 'Back & Fourth' and 'Break Up'. The latter, a collaboration with Scarlett Johansson, enjoyed considerable critical acclaim. Paste magazine commented; ''Break Up' succeeds in its ambitious goal of capturing the spirit ' if not the sound ' of the late 60's musical partnership between Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot.' Released earlier in 2009, 'Back & Fourth' was also heaped with praise; Rolling Stone declaring 'Yorn has found his voice on 'Back & Fourth', a mostly acoustic beauty.'

Yorn's forthcoming album was recorded on the spur-of-the-moment in the summer of 2008. Yorn was in the middle of making 'Back & Fourth' in Nebraska when he got an email from Black suggesting that they record some tunes. Intrigued by the notion of experimenting with Frank, Yorn hopped on a plane to Salem, OR, where the two set up an impromptu studio. They recorded the album in a mere five days ' even though the singer-songwriter-guitarist came down with the flu two days into the process. 'Frank didn't give a shit about getting sick, so we stayed in the flow,' recalls Yorn. 'He has an incredible ability to distill a song down to its core.'

Frank recalls, "Pete told me he wanted to better define himself as an artist. I think he just wanted to rock out. But as we headed down a path of realisation I stripped him down a whole bunch. We battled in the best sort of way. I tried to get the session into a fearless and raw place, and to his artistic credit Pete took his songwriting to a fearless and raw place. This listener will find his or herself sitting right next to Pete on the couch. And the record totally rocks out."