Houndmouth at The Jones Assembly

For two years, Matt Myers struggled to finish new songs. “I was all raw emotion,” says the Houndmouth frontman, who’d spent the previous decade blending rock & roll and American roots music into radio staples like the chart-topping, platinum-selling “Sedona.” He’d written four albums in less than 10 years, but inspiration just wasn’t showing up anymore. The end of one relationship. The beginning of another. The all-consuming feeling of new love. Myers’ life had been eventful, both onstage and off, and all that living didn’t leave him much time to create. Things changed when he paid a visit to Brad Cook, the Grammy-winning producer who’d overseen Houndmouth’s fourth record, Good For You. What began as a reunion of two friends soon gave away to something bigger: the restart of Myers’ songwriting engines and, in its wake, the creation of Lordy. With its naked honesty and uncluttered arrangements, Lordy takes a stripped-back approach to Houndmouth’s ever-evolving sound. It’s an album about surviving, rebuilding, accepting, and thriving once more.