Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!
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| Released | May 9, 2025 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, roots rock | |||
| Label | BMG | |||
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Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! is the eighth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, set to be released on May 9, 2025[1][2] by BMG. It is a follow-up to the 2021 EP Butter Miracle, Suite One, expanding the EP into a full album, and the band's first full-length album of original material since Somewhere Under Wonderland in 2014.
Background and recording
[edit]Writing for a planned four-song follow-up EP to the 2021 EP Butter Miracle, Suite One, tentatively titled Butter Miracle, Suite Two, was initially completed by 2022. The intention was to also release both EPs together as a single album.[3] While Duritz was performing backing vocals on two tracks from the Gang of Youths 2022 album Angel in Realtime, he came to believe that the initial songwriting for the second EP was not strong enough. He decided to rewrite the songs and add an additional composition. Recording for the follow-up could only happen once the band was done with touring.[4]
Eschewing a second EP release, the full nine-track album, with five new songs in addition to the original suite, was finished in 2024. It will be released on May 9, 2025.[1][2]
Track listing
[edit]All lyrics are written by Adam Duritz.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "With Love, From A-Z" | |
| 2. | "Spaceman in Tulsa" | 3:50 |
| 3. | "Boxcars" | |
| 4. | "Virginia Through the Rain" | |
| 5. | "Under the Aurora" | 5:41 |
| 6. | "The Tall Grass" | 4:34 |
| 7. | "Elevator Boots" | 3:48 |
| 8. | "Angel of 14th Street" | 5:01 |
| 9. | "Bobby and the Rat-Kings" | 5:29 |
Personnel
[edit]Counting Crows
- Jim Bogios – drums, percussion, harmony vocals
- David Bryson – guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals
- Adam Duritz – lead vocals, piano, harmony vocals
- Charlie Gillingham – keyboards, piano, Hammond B3 organ, Mellotron, harmony vocals
- David Immerglück – guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, vocals, harmony vocals
- Millard Powers – bass guitar, harmony vocals
- Dan Vickrey – guitar, 12-string guitar, harmony vocals
Additional musicians
- Dave Drago – backing vocals - Tracks 6-9
- Curtis Watson – trumpet - Tracks 6-9
Technical personnel
- Brian Deck – mixing, production - Tracks 6-9
- Meghan Foley – art direction
- Beth Hoeckel – artwork
- Neil Strauch – recording
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Counting Crows Announce The Complete Sweets! Tour". countingcrows.com. March 10, 2025. Archived from the original on April 14, 2025. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
- ^ a b "COUNTING CROWS UNVEIL NEW SINGLE"UNDER THE AURORA"". countingcrows.com. April 4, 2025. Archived from the original on April 14, 2025. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
- ^ Hiatt, Brian (April 27, 2021). "Exclusive: Hear Counting Crows' First New Music in Seven Years". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 27, 2021. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
- ^ Pelsor, Matt (May 29, 2023). "WTTS in Conversation – Adam Duritz of Counting Crows". WTTS. Archived from the original on May 29, 2023. Retrieved May 29, 2023.