Kevin Devine Signs With Razor & Tie, Talks New Album

Razor & Tie (NYC) has signed Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Kevin Devine.

Kevin Devine's latest will be out on Razor & Tie / Favorite Gentlemen this Fall.

Devine’s upcoming full-length album, Between the Concrete & Clouds, will be released on September 13, 2011 via Razor & Tie / Favorite Gentlemen. He will head out this fall on a headlining tour with The Features (out of Nashville) as direct support on its first leg.

Between The Concrete & Clouds is Devine’s first album made with a full backing band. Devine produced acoustic demos of the new songs in his rehearsal space after returning to Brooklyn from touring through most of 2009-10.

The album was then produced by longtime collaborator Chris Bracco, recorded in 10 days over the span of a month, and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Dr. Dog).

Stream the title track here:
“Between The Concrete and the Clouds” by Kevin Devine by Razor & Tie

The 10 track album features musicians Brian Bonz (keyboard), Chris Bracco (bass, keyboard), Mike Fadem (drums, percussion), Russell Smith (electric guitar), and Mike Strandberg (guitar, mandolin).  Sounds like both the producers and band helped flesh out the songs and sound in a new way for the singer/songwriter…

“The combination of Chris and Rob on this record kind of marries the best aspects of everything I’ve tried to do over the past ten years,” Devine said.  “I tried to explore a bit musically and make an album that still has a lot to chew on, but serves it with a scoop of ice cream.  I took the lyrical density of what I typically write – which are not-simple stories about not-simple people, or what I feel life is most accurately like – but give them more of a traditional pop structure.”

Watch Devine perform “Sleep Walking Through My Life” with Morgan Kibby from White Sea / M83 at Rob Schnapf’s studio during the recording of the album:

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