Brooklyn’s the Hold Steady have unveiled details for the band’s fourth album to date, entitled Stay Positive, due July 15 via Vagrant. Produced by John Agnello, the same knob-twiddler behind 2006’s Boys And Girls In America, the new set features contributions from Dinosaur Jr. shredder J. Mascis, Drive By Truckers’ Patterson Hood, and Doug Gillard, formerly of Guided By Voices.
“There’s less party talk,” frontman Craig Finn told Billboard.com of the outfit’s new tunes. “I don’t think anything is a radical departure, but there are things that I wanted to talk about. I was influenced a lot [by] getting old, and attempting to age gracefully. The idea is to not wake up washed up.”
Stay Positive tracklisting:
1. “Constructive Summer”
2. “Sequestered In Memphis”
3. “One For The Cutters”
4. “Navy Sheets”
5. “Lord, I’m Discouraged”
6. “Yeah Sapphire”
7. “Both Crosses”
8. “Stay Positive”
9. “Magazines”
10. “Joke About Jamaica”
11. “Slapped Actress”
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