Rostam has shared a new single, ‘Back of a Truck’, from his upcoming album American Stories. Co-written with Tobias Jesso Jr., the track interweaves elements of Americana and the traditional Persian music of Rostam’s upbringing, with contributions from Amir Yaghmai on electric saz and Daniel Aged on pedal steel. It arrives with an accompanying video directed by Antony Museheck and starring Milo Cassidy and Offering Rain. Watch and listen below.
“’Back of a Truck’ is about that feeling of being reminded of someone you used to know; hearing that song on the radio—or maybe it’s the smell of laundry that brings you back, then smiling to yourself and wishing them well, choosing to remember it in a way that lets go of the bad and holds on to the good,” Rostam said n a statement. “Musically I wanted to make a song that captures the feeling of driving through America with your windows down. Putting elements next to each other that I had not heard together before. Country Pedal steel next to Middle Eastern microtonal melodies. It feels like the America I know, and for that reason, it’s the centerpiece of the new record.”
American Stories is out May 15 via Rostam’s own label, Matsor Projects, in partnership with Secretly Distribution.
