Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.Label: Saddle CreekRelease Date: 2nd October So glad to have Stef Chura back, I was obsessed with her 2019 album 'Midnight' and now 7 years later, with seemingly a lifetime of stories including breakups, motherhood and negotiating dating life has happened. Lead single 'Danny' features Peter Buck and Mike Mills on what sonically feels like the closest you'll get to a new REM song. Self-depricating honesty, syrupy vocals and jangly indie rock. t's been seven years since Detroit singer and songwriter Stef Chura released her last album, Midnight. Plenty of dramatic and life-altering things happened in those seven years: She broke off an engagement, she left Detroit for New Orleans (and then Louisville), she gave birth to her first child, she ultimately returned to Detroit. But those events are not the true story of Dancing Alone on the Concrete, her third album and second for Saddle Creek. Here's what happened while Stef Chura was writing the songs that would eventually become Dancing Alone on the Concrete: She practiced the piano and the guitar a whole lot, and she went on dates. Single for the first time in years, Chura used the 2020 Covid lockdowns as an excuse to start over in New Orleans, where, like everyone else, she was mostly stuck indoors, unable to tour or play locally. "I was just writing and practicing," she says. "I was going back and forth, playing songs on the guitar and the piano, and it lent itself to the writing process in a nice way." Chura's singing voice has always been unique—it's brassy but contained, like a muted trumpet. The album, recorded at Athens' Chase Park Transduction studio with David Barbe (Sugar) and Andy LeMaster (Now It’s Overhead) and produced by Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo, even features R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Mike Mills on "Danny.”
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