James Vincent McMorrow started teasing he had more music coming earlier this year, posting pictures of a countdown hidden on his Twitter bio. The days passed, the numbers turned into morse code, and his profile – which previously followed the light and blue aesthetic of last year’s album We Move – went dark. A new colour scheme, logo, and teases about glowing jellyfish underwater started the gradual build-up towards McMorrow’s fourth album, True Care, set for release this Friday, May 26th via Faction/AllPoints. The first single off the record, also called “True Care,” was released yesterday to give fans a taster of the album. In “True Care,” McMorrow shows a new side to his sound, leaning more towards Bon Iver’s 22, A Million and shredding McMorrow’s previous image as a folk, singer-songwriter, while exploring one of the most meaningful relationships in his life. Let’s go out for breakfast when you wake Not hungry now but in a while I think that all could change Used to feel so much that it would ache Now I’ve figured out the walls surround a holiday
