The Milk Carton Kids have announced the release of their new album Monterey as the record arrives May 19th and the title track premiered Tuesday and is streaming below.
Monterey is The Milk Carton Kids’ third album and the follow-up to their 2013 breakthrough The Ash & Clay. The two years since have been significant ones for the band, with recognition including a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Folk Album and winning Group of the Year at the 2014 Americana Music Awards. Their standout performances and interviews in the Coen Brothers’ and T Bone Burnett’s concert documentary “Another Day/Another Time” brought the duo its widest audience yet, and their 55-city North American tour last Spring sold out months in advance.
This time around, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan wrote and recorded Monterey not in studios but on stages – those concert halls, churches, and theaters across North America that have always coaxed the band’s most uninhibited expressions. Their methodology in making Monterey allowed The Milk Carton Kids, finally, to perform for the record with the same fearlessness and spontaneity usually only achieved in live concert. As writers, the two have merged so singularly that friends and family can no longer tell who has written which song. As singers on Monterey, their acclaimed harmonies move farther apart, so that the quirks and kinks of two individual identities emerge, all the while remaining lush and soaring, their beauty even more apparent for the showing of their scars.
The Milk Carton Kids’ Monterey – Track Listing
1. Asheville Skies – 5:19
2. Getaway – 4:21
3. Monterey – 4:35
4. Secrets Of The Stars – 2:44
5. Freedom – 4:13
6. High Hopes – 2:35
7. Deadly Bells – 2:14
8. Shooting Shadows – 3:40
9. The City Of Our Lady – 2:11
10. Sing, Sparrow, Sing – 1:46
11. Poison Tree – 3:46
