Dean Wareham has introduced a brand new album. That’s the Price of Loving Me is out March 28 by way of Carpark. The ten-song LP reunites Wareham along with his former Galaxie 500 producer Kramer, marking their first collaboration in 34 years, following the indie band’s last album, 1990’s This Is Our Music. Forward of his new report, Wareham has shared lead single “You Had been the Ones I Needed to Betray,” together with a Sylvie Lake–directed music video co-starring Wareham’s spouse and bandmate Britta Phillips. Wareham as additionally introduced a string of tour dates going down in April and Might. Discover every part under.
That’s the Value of Loving Me is the fourth solo album from Wareham, who additionally performs within the bands Luna and Dean & Britta. Wareham minimize the LP in six days in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood, the place Kramer, Phillips, Anthony LaMarca, drummer Roger Brogan, and session cellist Gabe Noel all convened to contribute to the songs.
“Kramer insisted that I play all the guitars on this report,” Wareham stated in press supplies. “And we labored shortly. Kramer believes that two takes yield extra treasure than twenty, and he at all times appears to have the tune mapped out in his head immediately.”
Kramer added: “34 years is a very long time. However I really like Dean, so it was well worth the wait. Going again into the studio with him once more felt like we’d by no means been aside. And when the work was executed, I felt prefer it couldn’t have been higher. There was a ‘full circle’ air round us that also lingers. I’m grateful for having been invited inside once more, and for the emotional alternatives {that a} actually deep and private collaboration can provide. It’s extremely uncommon, and I’d be shocked if I really feel something even remotely like this once more.”
Of lead single “You Had been the Ones I Needed to Betray,” Wareham elaborated: “I wrote this on the final minute, enthusiastic about how love and friendship appear to really invite betrayal. I didn’t actually anticipate the place the tune would find yourself musically; it was reworked when Gabe Noel added the cello association within the studio.”
Wareham’s final studio album, I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A., got here out in 2021, although he did launch a vacation album with Phillips and Sonic Growth in 2024 titled A Peace of Us. Final 12 months additionally noticed the discharge of Uncollected Noise New York, 88-90, a compilation of unreleased Galaxie 500 music.
