St. Paul & The Broken Bones Announce Unveil New Self-Titled Album with “Sushi and Coca Cola”
St. Paul & The Broken Bones, photo by Dino Perrucci
St. Paul & The Broken Bones have returned today to announce their self-titled sixth studio album. Set to release on Oct. 10 via their own Oasis Pizza Records imprint, St. Paul & The Broken Bones follows the powerhouse Southern soul ensemble’s celebrated 2023 record Angels in Science Fiction and seeks to merge the bold experimentalism of their last few ventures with the warm, ebullient vintage rhythm and blues of their debut. Altogether, it’s a reinvigorating statement of the group’s incredible ascent in the past decade and their mature, many-sided sound, previewed today with the advance single “Sushi and Coca Cola.”
“It’s the outcome of the book we wrote with the last records,” frontman Paul Janeway said of the forthcoming project. “The self-titled album is what the band is now. I think the band in general feels reignited. I’ve had this conversation with bassist and co-founder Jesse Phillips, who said, ‘I don’t know where we can take this. But we have the opportunity to make any kind of record we want. Before, the band thought, ‘How far can we take it?’ [Now, it’s] ‘What is the band great at? What lessons have we learned?’”
For St. Paul & The Broken Bones, the soul octet went back to the basics, determining not to push themselves into tough positions but rather ease into the rhythms of classic songcraft. With co-writing and production from Eg White, Janeway, bassist Jesse Phillips, guitarist Browan Lollar, drummer Kevin Leon, keyboardist Al Gamble, trumpeter Allen Branstetter, saxophonist Amari Ansari, and trombonist Chad Fisher hunkered down at the Muscle Shoals, Ala.’s iconic FAME Studios to conjure confident and soul-stirring declarations of life’s simple pleasures and fundamental truths. “Sushi and Coca Cola” radiates the heartfelt joy and insight that the band channelled during their sessions in its infectious and effortlessly funky swagger.
“I was sitting in my living room, drinking a Mexican Coca-Cola and having some sushi—as on-point as it can be—with my wife and little girl,” Janeway said of the single’s origins. “I felt, ‘Man, this is a great place.’ You know how you have moments that feel like a warm bath?’ This is one that me and Eg were writing, and I’d been saving it. I just like the way [the title] sang. I think everyone at first thought, ‘That’s weirdly specific.’ Had I just said ‘dinner and a drink,’ that doesn’t do it. We came up with this scenario about having a shit day but finding the comfort in that thing.”
St. Paul & The Broken Bones is available to pre-order now. Listen to “Sushi and Coca Cola” below, and find more information on the band and their new tour dates at stpaulandthebrokenbones.com.
Read on for the album’s full tracklist.
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – St. Paul & The Broken Bones
1. Sushi and Coca-Cola
2. Fall Moon
3. Ooo-Wee
4. Sitting In The Corner
5. I Think You Should Know
6. Nothing More Lonely
7. Stars Above
8. Seagulls
9. Change a Life
10. Going Back
