Conan Gray Offers New Details About Forthcoming LP, ‘Wishbone’
The songwriter unexpectedly shared the news alongside artwork and a tracklist.
Conan Gray has surprised fans with the announcement of a new album, Wishbone, which is set to arrive on August 15 via Republic Records.
In addition to unveiling the forthcoming album title, tracklisting, and artwork, Conan confirmed that first single, “This Song,” will arrive on May 30.
Conan Gray commented on the surprise announcement: “Over the past two years, I’ve been secretly writing songs. After shows in the basements of the venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, in narrow gaps between tours—I’d come back home and write all the things I felt nobody wanted to hear. Maybe even the things I didn’t want people to hear. It felt like the music was reminding me who I am, at an experimental time in my twenties where ‘who I am’ had no definition at all.”
He added: “I played the songs to the very first person I’d ever made music with, Dan Nigro, and I quietly began to record. I didn’t know why I was recording, I just was. I didn’t know what story I was telling, I was just living in it. Slowly I started to see myself in full picture. The slivers of myself I’d always been, but never faced. The songs I’d always been writing, but never singing. Before I knew it I was surrounded by an album. That album is Wishbone.”
Much like his first two albums, Conan wrote all the songs on Wishbone from his bedroom, and reunited with Nigro to record the LP. In addition, Conan worked with Ethan Gruska, Noah Conrad, Luka Kloser, and Elvira as producers on Wishbone.
This latest project is set to follow Gray’s 2024 effort, Found Heaven, which was co-produced by the legendary Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, and Shawn Everett.
