Conan Gray confirms new album ‘Wishbone’

Just over a year on from last year’s ‘Found Heaven’, US singer-songwriter Conan Gray has confirmed details of its follow-up.

‘Wishbone’, set for release on 15th August, was, as Conan notes, written “secretly”.

He adds: “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.” Conan continues, “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.”

Recorded alongside producer Dan Nigro (a previous collaborator, also best known for his work with Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan), the first song from the record, ‘This Song’, will be released next week, on 30th May.

The track listing for ‘Wishbone’ is:

    1.    Actor
    2.    This Song
    3.    Vodka Cranberry
    4.    Romeo
    5.    My World
    6.    Class Clown
    7.    Nauseous
    8.    Caramel
    9.    Connell
    10.    Sunset Tower
    11.    Eleven Eleven
    12.    Care