The Lumineers have announced the release of their highly anticipated new album, “Automatic”, available via Dualtone on Friday, 14th February 2025. It’s the band’s fifth studio album and their first new collection in more than three years. After twenty years of musical partnership, both Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz, now dads, fully embraced the life-altering, unromantic challenges and rewards of family life. When they reconvened to write, the emerging songs featured a new vulnerability, sly humour and acknowledgements of need – for love, respect, and connection in an increasingly chaotic world. “People who think they have our number,” says Fraites, “they’ll be surprised.”
“This album marks 20 years of songwriting between Jeremiah and me,” says Wesley Schultz. “The album explores some of the absurdities of the modern world, like the increasingly blurry line between what’s real and what’s not, and the variety of ways we numb ourselves while trying to combat both boredom and overstimulation.”
Inspired by Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary “Get Back”, the band, with the help of co-producers David Baron and Simone Felice, set up shop in the expansive tracking room at Woodstock’s Utopia Studio. Multiple set-ups – with two sets of drums, three different pianos, and an array of amps, guitars, vocal mics – were laid out, allowing the musicians to pivot and capture as much as possible with minimal delay. The process further freed The Lumineers to perform the songs as a unit. For the first time on a Lumineers album, the band is credited as co-producers alongside Felice and Baron, who also engineered and mixed.
The band announced an extensive UK and European tour last September with dates in April and May 2025. Full details including links to tickets can be found here.
“Automatic” is heralded by the first single, ‘Same Old Song’. A speedy chronicle of misadventures showcasing The Lumineers’ undeniable flair for a soaring rave-up, ‘Same Old Song’ is joined by an official music video featuring Schultz and Fraites performing in front of a living canvas where scenes play out like VHS home movies. The video was directed by filmmaker Anaïs LaRocca (Hundred Waters).
