Back & Fourth

Pete Yorn is an American singer/songwriter/guitarist. On this current album, he has taken a different approach to writing and recording with stunning results. He wrote all ten songs and recorded the album in Omaha, NE with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley). The songs on ‘Back and Fourth’ range from lilting mandolin lullabies to bracing anthems. But there’s a thread running through the album - an organic feel to the arrangements, a careful pacing to the sequence, a penetrating truth to the stories - that’s unmatched by anything else in Yorn’s catalogue. ‘Back and Fourth’ is Yorn’s fourth studio album and follows on from the critically acclaimed albums ‘Nightcrawler’, ‘Day I Forgot’ and ‘musicforthemorningafter’. ‘Back and Fourth’ is like no other Pete Yorn record - for the first time, Yorn wrote lyrics before composing melodies, resulting in his most personal songs to date. When it came time to record, Yorn traded the family, friends and routines of his life in Los Angeles for the relative solitude of Omaha, where he spent two months in 2008 making the album. And while Yorn played virtually all the instruments on his first three albums, he assembled a top shelf band for ‘Back and Fourth’, including drummer Joey Waronker (Beck), pianist/arranger Nate Wolcott (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley), guitarist Jonny Polonsky, bassist Joe Karnes (John Cale), and backing vocalist Orenda Fink (Azure Ray).

1. Don't Wanna Cry
2. Paradise Cove
3. Close
4. Social Development Dance
5. Shotgun
6. Last Summer
7. Thinking Of You
8. Country
9. Four Years
10. Long Time Nothing New