Bill Callahan has shared previewed his upcoming album My Days of 58 with a new single called ‘Lonely City’. The city in question is New York, and the accompanying video is made up of photographs compiled by the street photographer Daniel Arnold from 15 years’ worth of his own work. There’s something both haunting and warmly casual about the song’s personification of a place that seems to have its own beating heart. Check it out below.
In a statement, Callahan said:
‘Lonely City’ is a song I’ve been meaning to write for decades. It has been inside me that long. I tend to focus my writing on humans and the spirit within. So writing about concrete and steel felt like a no go. Like I’m going to write a song about a car next?
But of course cities are made by humans so they are human, too.
You have a relationship with them, like friends.
You get mad at them when you get a parking ticket, you love them when they offer you a nice meal.
It’s a song acknowledging all this.
My Days of 58 is set to arrive on February 27 via Drag City. The follow-up to 2022’s YTI⅃AƎЯ was led by the single ‘The Man I’m Supposed to Be’.
