Cut Worms reveals details of his new self-titled album

The news of Cut Worms' forthcoming third studio album is accompanied by the single, "Ballad of the Texas King".

Of the single's Clay Tatum-directed video, Clarke says: “The video concept was a collaboration between me and director Clay Tatum. He and Whitmer Thomas used one of my songs in their recent film The Civil Dead which I very much enjoyed and so I sought them out to do my video. I’m real pleased with how it came out and I think it puts the song in another dimension."

Cut Worms is a response to 2020’s Nobody Lives Here Anymore, Clarke’s expansive double-LP recorded in Memphis.

Clarke leaves behind recording an entire album in one chunk at one studio, and sought after producers, for a more homegrown approach, working with a cast of gifted friends and collaborators.

Three of the songs were cut from start to finish in his shared rehearsal space; two others were recorded in Brooklyn by Brian and Michael D’Addorio of the Lemon Twigs, who also played piano and bass, respectively, on these two songs. Further basic tracking was done by Rick Spataro (Florist) at his Hudson Valley studio, Onlyness Analog, with contributions from the long-standing Cut Worms live band: keyboardist John Andrews, bassist Keven Louis Lareau, and drummer Noah Bond.

Tracklist:

1. Don’t Fade Out
2. Take it and Smile
3. Ballad of the Texas King
4. I’ll Never Make It
5. Is it Magic?
6. Let’s Go Out On The Town
7. Living Inside
8. Use Your Love! (Right Now)
9. Too Bad