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PETE YORN Back And Fourth Columbia Records June 23, 2009 ESCAPE FROM LA: PETE YORN DECAMPS TO OMAHA FOR NEW ALBUM BACK AND FOURTH

PETE YORN Back And Fourth Columbia Records June 23, 2009

ESCAPE FROM LA: PETE YORN DECAMPS TO OMAHA FOR NEW ALBUM ‘BACK AND FOURTH’

Last fall Pete Yorn traded the city sprawl of Los Angeles for the rolling plains of Nebraska to work on his new album ‘Back and Fourth’ with Omaha producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley).

For two months, Yorn lived in a guest house behind Mogis’s Omaha studio where he made the record. He spent his spare moments driving around Nebraska exploring the wide-open landscapes and writing. For the first time, Yorn wrote lyrics before composing melodies resulting in his most personal album to date. Escaping his everyday routine was something that shaped the new album. Yorn explains, “I think I found a different kind of inspiration there that helped carry the record home.”

For fun Pete would check out local bands in Omaha, gamble on riverboats, and hang out with the Mogis family. “I had great conversations with Mike’s dad,” Yorn says. “Denny Mogis. He’s a real interesting character.”

‘Back and Fourth’ follows Yorn’s first three albums, which he considers a trilogy, and is his first album in three years. The songs on ‘Back and Fourth’ range from lilting mandolin lullabies to bracing anthems. But there’s a thread running through the album – an organic feel to the arrangements, a careful pacing to the sequence, a penetrating truth to the stories – that’s unmatched by anything else in Yorn’s catalogue.

‘Back and Fourth’ sounds like no other Pete Yorn record because it was made like no other Pete Yorn record. For the first time, Yorn wrote lyrics before composing melodies, resulting in his most personal songs to date. While Yorn played virtually all the instruments on his first three albums, he assembled a top shelf band for ‘Back and Fourth’, including drummer Joey Waronker (Beck), pianist/arranger Nate Wolcott (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley), guitarist Jonny Polonsky, bassist Joe Karnes (John Cale), and backing vocalist Orenda Fink (Azure Ray). “That’s the essential approach to the new album,” says Yorn. “I wanted to share my songs with a group of players who I respected, and then share the experience of recording them together as a group.”

PETE YORN ‘BACK AND FOURTH’ TRACK LISTING:

1. Don’t Wanna Cry
2. Paradise Cove
3. Close
4. Social Development
5. Shotgun
6. Last Summer
7. Thinking of You
8. Country
9. Four Years
10. Long Time