Published 2025-03-15 06:00
Counting Crows has announced their forthcoming new album, “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”, will be released on May 9th, 2025, via BMG Music. This is the 1st new material since 2021’s “Butter Miracle, Suite One”, and the album contains the 4 tracks from that EP along with 5 original unreleased songs, including the new single, "Spaceman In Tulsa". As ever, the music blends their signature storytelling with their trademark sound and is, in fact, the band’s 1st single in nearly 5 years. This release will mark the band’s 1st full album since 2014’s “Somewhere Under Wonderland”, and will be their 8th of a 32 year career, but who’s counting?
“'Spaceman In Tulsa' is about metamorphosis, the way music breaks down who we were and spins us into something new. It’s about broken lives becoming something better”, remarks singer Adam Duritz of the new song.
The album promises to embody the contrast between intimate storytelling and larger than life themes and to deliver the signature storytelling and rich melodies that have made the band so successful, having shifted over 20 million copies over the last 3 decades. And, as usual, frontman Duritz delivers a raw and compelling vocal performance, backed by the band’s dynamic instrumentation that blends all those rock, folk, and alternative influences.