Today, platinum-selling singer-songwriter Pete Yorn announces the Rooftop EP (20 years of musicforthemorningafter) in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his critically acclaimed and seminal debut album musicforthemorningafter (2001, Columbia Records). Upon its release, Rolling Stone’s 4 star review called the record “gently lit by sunlight and regret.” SPIN in their retrospective piece today called musicforthemorningafter “one of 2001’s best," referring to Yorn as "one of his generation’s best songwriters.”
The Rooftop EP arrives May 5th and includes four tracks: “Rooftop,” an unreleased outtake from the musicforthemorningafter sessions and three live versions of tracks from the album including Smiths cover “Panic”, “Life On A Chain” and “Lose You”, the latter of which is an emotionally charged performance delivered on his childhood piano.
Yorn says of the album’s anniversary, "We made it in garages in California, in Van Nuys and Culver City...I just made music that I liked and I knew that there were no guarantees of where it would get me... but twenty years later I am really proud of the impact the record has had and it still carries a deep emotional resonance for me.”
LISTEN TO THE EP’S LIVE VERSION OF “LIFE ON A CHAIN” HERE
Rooftop EP Tracklist:
1. Rooftop (Unreleased outtake from the musicforthemorningafter sessions)
2. Panic (Live at Y100 Sonic Sessions, Philadelphia, PA - November 24th, 2001)
3. Life On A Chain (Live at Y100 Sonic Sessions, Philadelphia, PA -November 24th, 2001)
4. Lose You (Live from the musicforthemorningafter Quarantine Livestream – July 25th, 2020)
The Rooftop EP follows the release of Yorn’s first-ever covers album, Pete Yorn Sings the Classics (via Shelly Music). (Read my review of the album HERE.) The LP celebrates his musical influences, with a collection of songs originally performed and written by Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, The Stone Roses, Simon and Garfunkel and more. Buy/stream Pete Yorn Sings The Classics HERE.
Since his extraordinary 2001 debut album musicforthemorningafter, Yorn has released a total of eight albums of angsty, critically-acclaimed rock. In 2019, Yorn released Caretakers (via Shelly Music), his first solo album in three years featuring the top 2 AAA single “Calm Down”. The New Yorker Magazine praised the album’s “dreamy synths-and-strings jangle” and in All Music’s 4 star review, they described the music as “lush yet spare, tuneful but not forceful, cinematic yet small scale…an appealing blend that sets it apart from most other albums in 2019." Yorn performed songs from the album on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Ellen.
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