Here are official details on our April announcement of Jars Of Clay's latest recording... Multi-platinum and three time GRAMMY winning band
Jars of Clay gears up for the release of its highly-anticipated seventh studio project,
Good Monsters, on September 5. Long considered a critical success, Jars of Clay has also enjoyed major commercial success over its decade long career, including a double-platinum selling debut project, and more than 5 million records sold in total. Along with its loyal fan base, the band has, in recent years also found a community with poets and deep thinkers. With
Good Monsters, the band set out to capture its communal experiences and have a bit of fun with the process. The result is an outstanding collection of tunes that are engaging upon first listen, and increasingly captivating with each additional spin: rock hits, without sacrificing the intelligence and depth of Dan Haseltine’s poetic lyrical genius. “I was not sure how all of the experiences of the last few years would translate into music,” Haseltine shares. “There have been so many things to look at and describe. This record is part confessional, part euphoric love poem, part bitter divorce, and part benediction. It was born out of many experiences and conversations between addicts, failures, lovers, loners, believers, and beggars. And so the language of recovery and the honest discourse about our attempts to live apart from God and apart from each other is a theme. Engaging people who are doing the hard work of laying their lives open to others, and avoiding isolation, has allowed me to see that there is both immeasurable evil and unfathomable good mixing under my own skin and it is grace, mercy and freedom that allow me to not simply be a monster, but to be a good monster.” With eleven original songs, and a remake of the Julie Miller-penned anthem “All My Tears,”
Good Monsters even boasts a few stirring guest appearances: Nashville-based, singer/songwriter extraordinaire Kate York guests on “Even Angels Cry,” and formerly of Sixpence None the Richer, Leigh Nash, sings on “Mirrors and Smoke,” while the moving, “Light Gives Heat,” features the African Children’s Choir.
Good Monsters, completely self-produced by the band, contains the first single, “Work,” which will be serviced to CHR formats on June 23rd, and AC formats on July 7th. Additionally, mainstream radio promotional efforts are pending at this date, as well as plans for an extensive Fall tour. For more information please visit:
www.jarsofclay.com (from
Provident Music Group)