Evening Hymns announces first album in five years with lead single "My Drugs, My Dreams"

"My Drugs, My Dreams" is the first new single from Evening Hymns, aka Jonas Bonnetta, since last month's comeback single "I Can Only Be Good", and arrives with a monochrome visual directed by Monika Kraska.

Bonnetta says of his latest single, "I wrote this song in my living room right after my breakup, totally terrified and alone. Again, all these huge questions came back to me and I was so confused and drained. I'd just hurt this person that I loved and had loved for so long and who I had had all of these formative experiences with: touring the world, moving to the country, grieving my father. I wanted to remember it forever, to be present, to learn from it, and so drew the picture. I'd always had this feeling that love should feel good wherever you are, in some idyllic place or in some run-down miserable apartment. I wanted to be happy with nothing. To take away my vices and my dreams and still feel free and hopeful and capable of love."

He adds, "I’d been working on this song for years and kept putting it aside when I knew I didn’t have the energy to make it better. In my head, I was chasing Rupert Hine’s "Arrested By You" from the Better Off Dead soundtrack, a childhood favourite. I got this big drumbeat going and then just muted all the old drums and guitars. The strings still fit beautifully and that became the song."

Evening Hymns' forthcoming Heavy Nights album will be his first under that name since 2015's Quiet Energies, and features guest collaborators including Destroyer's Joseph Shabason, By Divine Right's José Contreras, and Bonnetta’s partner, Caylie Runciman, aka Boyhood.

Tracklist:

1. I Can Only Be Good
2. Heavy Nights
3. Pyrenees
4. The Days Disintegrating
5. You In Dreams
6. My Drugs, My Dreams
7. Kiss My Dreams
8. Halfway To The Moon