COUNTING CROWS are back with a new single and a butter-themed EP

28 April 2021

US rockers COUNTING CROWS have announced their first release in seven years. The four track Butter Miracle, Suite One will be released on May 21, and is the follow-up to 2014's Somewhere Under Wonderland album.

The first single from the EP, Elevator Boots, is already available, and is a contemplative, road-weary slice of heartland Americana that conjures up visions of Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison and REM.

Elevator Boots was written by band frontman Adam Duritz while he was living in the UK on a friend's farm last year, during which time he shaved his trademark dreadlocks. “I got rid of my beard, too,” Durtz tells Rolling Stone. “I just wanted to see myself. I didn’t want to be hiding behind a beard or the dreads."

The four tracks that make up Butter Miracle, Suite One will eventually form half of a full COUNTING CROWS album, with an as-yet-unwritten suite filling the second half.