A little over a year after last year’s ‘Found Heaven’, US singer-songwriter Conan Gray has announced details of its successor. Titled ‘Wishbone’ and scheduled for release on August 15, Conan reveals that it was written “secretly.” He shares, “After performing in the basements of venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, and in the fleeting gaps between tours—I would return home and write about feelings I thought nobody wanted to hear. Perhaps even those I wasn’t ready to share.”
“It felt like the music was rediscovering who I am during an uncertain period in my twenties when ‘who I am’ was undefined.” Conan adds, “I played the songs for the very first person I ever created music with, Dan Nigro, and quietly began recording. I wasn’t sure why I was recording; I just felt compelled to do it. I didn’t fully understand the story I was conveying; I was simply living it. Gradually, I began to see the bigger picture of myself—pieces I had always been but had never confronted. The songs I had been writing but hadn’t performed before. Before I realized it, I was enveloped by an album. That album is Wishbone.”
Collaborating with producer Dan Nigro (who has worked with Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan), the first single from the album, ‘This Song’, will be available next week, on May 30. The track list for ‘Wishbone’ includes:
1. Actor
2. This Song
3. Vodka Cranberry
4. Romeo
5. My World
6. Class Clown
7. Nauseous
8. Caramel
9. Connell
10. Sunset Tower
11. Eleven Eleven
12. Care
"The superstar declares, 'I aimed to produce the album I desired to write and release following my departure from Take That in 1995.'"
The album comes after the Mercury-shortlisted 'Skin' from 2021.
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The track is part of the upcoming album 'More.'
The singer-songwriter's fourth album comes after last year's 'Found Heaven'.