Paul McCartney has announced a new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which is due for release on May 29 via MPL/Capitol. It’s led by the nostalgic ‘Days We Left Behind’, which you can hear below.
McCartney worked on the album, his first since 2020’s McCartney III, with producer Andrew Watt. According to a press release, it’s as an autobiographical record that grapples with his childhood in post-war Liverpool.
“This is very much a memory song for me,” McCartney said of ‘Days we Left Behind’. “The album title, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, comes from a lyric in this track. I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John and Forthlin Road which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”
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The Boys of Dungeon Lane Tracklist:
1. As You Lie There
2. Lost Horizon
3. Days We Left Behind
4. Ripples in a Pond
5. Mountain Top
6. Down South
7. We Two
8. Come Inside
9. Never Know
10. Home to Us
11. Life Can Be Hard
12. First Star of the Night
13. Salesman Saint
14. Momma Gets By
