We have been big fans of Nate Amos around these parts for some time now and what a few years he’s had. Between delivering breakout records both as a solo artist — under his This Is Lorelei moniker (which we have finally learnt how to spell which is progress) — and with his band Water From Your Eyes, sold out shows across multiple continents, to seeing artists such as Jeff Tweedy, Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman cover his songs, Amos has clearly found his stride, and he’s announcing today details of his next record which arrives on September 11th. As the first This Is Lorelei album for the Matador label, The Singer in My Band is described as taking “the building blocks of the Great American Songbook and twisting those elemental pieces into new shapes, at once both strangely familiar and endearingly offbeat in Amos’ signature style.”
Written while touring the globe in support of releases from both his bands, the album arrives as the first ‘road record’ in Amos’ discography. “The ideas incubated while daydreaming in the car without access to any instruments,” he recalls, “so instead of being home and writing on the guitar or a computer, they developed slowly and subconsciously, existing as a sort of intangible thing while looking out the van window.”
Billy Came Back is the first single to be taken from the album which arrives today alongside a video by Alan “Rickman” Official which you can watch below. “‘Billy Came Back’ stewed for months before I picked up a guitar to work it out – I kept forgetting about it but it always came back. Finishing the song was the only way to get it to leave me alone,” says Amos.
There’s Billy, Joey, Genevieve, Sarah, and the ever-present Buddy, an Altman-esque ensemble cast that populate the album’s stories, scattered through distinctly American scenes and landmarks. As narrators go, they aren’t terribly reliable. They traffic in wild stories and chaotic experiences that are at once oddly specific and just a bit blurry, mirroring Amos’ experience of these last several years.“It’s funny, I sent my dad the album after I finished it, and he said it was kind of an “on the road beatnik” album and that reframed it for me,” says Amos. “It really is like a collection of chaotic experiences that you have while travelling. They’re also very much little works of fiction with elements of truth to them.”
The Singer in My Bandcame together in the same apartment Amos has produced much of his music, with final touches made at his parents’ house in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Amos engineered, produced, and performed everything onSinger, save for a blistering banjo lead on the title track courtesy of his father, bluegrass musician Bob Amos, and the occasional vocals from his sister Sarah Amos and partner Al Nardo. “They’re three people who had a fundamental impact on what this album was to begin with, and the ways they could contribute were things that I had in mind as I was writing the songs,”he explains.
There’s an economy of style to Singer that’s distinct in the Lorelei catalogue, harkening back to Amos’ earliest experiences with songwriting and a lifelong reverence for bluegrass music. “It’s the most fundamental form of music to me,” he says, but is quick to note any influence is more as a set of principles than a sound. “There’s a simplicity to bluegrass, where there are very particular rules and a very particular box – songs have to stand up by themselves in terms of melody, lyrics and chord progression.”
This Is Lorelei will be traversing the globe in support of The Singer In My Band, including a UK headline run in November. The tour includes dates with Bleachers, @ and Colin Miller. Here are the dates along with the tracklist for the record.
This is Lorelei UK Dates 2026:
17/11 – Bristol, UK @ Electric Bristol #
18/11 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club #
19/11 – Glasgow, UK @ The Art School # –SOLD OUT
21/11 – Dublin, Ireland @ The Workman’s Club # –SOLD OUT
22/11 – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall #
24/11 – Nottingham, UK @ Bodega #
25/11 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk #
26/11 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton #
“The Singer in My Band” Tracklist:
1. I Will Eat My Heart in the Morning Light
2. Oh No Now My
3. Billy Came Back
4. Watching Heaven Fall
5. Sailing (Your Baby’s Down)
6. The Singer in My Band
7. Nitro
8. Hey Sarah Is It Gonna Rain Forever
9. The Kid With The Crown
10. And I Haven’t Seen My Love in Quite a While
11. Don’t You Cry in Lonesomeness
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