This Is Lorelei is back. Nate Amos’ latest album under the moniker is called The Singer in My Band, and it’s out September 11 via his new label home, Matador. The lead single, ‘Billy Came Back’, arrives today alongside a video by Alan “Rickman” Official; if Alex G’s ‘Afterlife’ was your song of the summer last year, this could easily be your pick for 2026. Check it out below.
“‘Billy Came Back’ stewed for months before I picked up a guitar to work it out – I kept forgetting about it but it always came back,” Amos recalled. “Finishing the song was the only way to get it to leave me alone.”
Amos wrote The Singer in My Band while touring the world in support of releases from both This Is Lorelei and his other band, Water From Your Eyes. As such, it’s billed as the first true “road record” in Amos’ discography. “The ideas incubated while daydreaming in the car without access to any instruments, so instead of being home and writing on the guitar or a computer, they developed slowly and subconsciously, existing as a sort of intangible thing while looking out the van window,” he explained.
“It’s funny, I sent my dad the album after I finished it, and he said it was kind of an “on the road beatnik” album and that reframed it for me,” Amos added. “It really is like a collection of chaotic experiences that you have while travelling. They’re also very much little works of fiction with elements of truth to them.”
The new album leans into Amos’ reverence for bluegrass music. “It’s the most fundamental form of music to me,” he said. “There’s a simplicity to bluegrass, where there are very particular rules and a very particular box – songs have to stand up by themselves in terms of melody, lyrics and chord progression.”
This Is Lorelei’s last album was 2024’s Box for Buddy, Box for Star, which was expanded earlier this year into a deluxe edition with covers by MJ Lenderman, Snail Mail, and Power Snatch. Last year, Amos put out Holo Boy, a collection of re-recordings of older songs from his catalog.
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with This Is Lorelei.
The Singer in My Band Cover Artwork:
The Singer in My Band Tracklist:
1. I Will Eat My Heart in the Morning Light
2. Oh No Now My
3. Billy Came Back
4. Watching Heaven Fall
5. Sailing (Your Baby’s Down)
6. The Singer in My Band
7. Nitro
8. Hey Sarah Is It Gonna Rain Forever
9. The Kid With The Crown
10. And I Haven’t Seen My Love in Quite a While
11. Don’t You Cry in Lonesomeness
