Benmont Tench, keyboardist for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, has introduced The Melancholy Season, his first new solo album in over a decade. Together with the announcement, he has unveiled the title observe and 2025 tour dates.
Produced by Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Margo Worth, Dawes), The Melancholy Season will arrive on March seventh by way of Darkish Horse Information. It options 13 songs with contributions from Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins, and singer-songwriter Jenny O. It will likely be his first full-length launch since his 2014 solo debut, You Ought to Be So Fortunate. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Forward of the arrival of The Melancholy Season, Tench will preview the songs at his upcoming residency in New York on the Café Carlyle slated for February 18th by way of twenty second. After that, he’ll hit the street for a handful of West Coast tour dates, stopping in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and different cities. Take a look at the complete checklist of his upcoming exhibits under, and get tickets right here.
As for the one “The Melancholy Season,” it arrives at the moment with a music video directed by Chloe Bader, displaying Tench enjoying the ballad from behind the keyboard of a Steinway. Lyrically, it revolves round a sense of “alienation” between spouses on a chilly night time beneath the celebrities, with lyrics like, “Between the opening of our eyes/ And the final time that we shut them/ What would I give to show the observe/ Of time to match our traces.”
Setting the scene in an announcement, Tench mentioned the track was “a few man wanting throughout the yard at his spouse by the pool. She’s about to kick off her footwear. It’s chilly, the pool is heated and the steam is rising off the water. The thought was the alienation between these two individuals.”
As for the title of the track and album, Tench defined, “On the home the place I lived for a few years, within the hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley, Orion was solely seen within the fall and winter. I related the constellation with that point: ‘Oh, there’s my buddy.’ However that season, when it begins getting chilly in California, has at all times been a bit melancholy to me.”
Watch the music video for “The Melancholy Season” under.
The Melancholy Season Art work:
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<p><strong><em>The Melancholy Season</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />01. The Melancholy Season<br />02. Pledge<br />03. Rattle<br />04. Not Sufficient<br />05. If She Knew<br />06. I Will Not Observe You Down<br />07. Below the Starlight<br />08. Again<br />09. Like Crystal<br />10. Wobbles<br />11. You, Once more<br />12. The Drivin’ Man<br />13. Dallas</p>
<p><strong>Benmont Tench 2025 Tour Dates:</strong><br />02/18 – New York, NY @ Café Carlyle<br />02/19 – New York, NY @ Café Carlyle<br />02/20 – New York, NY @ Café Carlyle<br />02/21 – New York, NY @ Café Carlyle<br />02/22 – New York, NY @ Café Carlyle<br />03/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Largo<br />03/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Largo<br />04/02 – Ojai, CA @ Ojai Playhouse<br />04/04 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Kuumbwa<br />04/05 – San Francisco, CA @ The Impartial<br />04/08 – Seattle, WA @ Triple Door<br />04/09 – Portland, OR @ Outdated Church<br />04/11 – Grass Valley, CA @ Heart for the Arts<br />04/12 – Sonoma, CA @ Sebastiani Theatre</p>
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