prodigal sun

THE THIRD ALBUM OF 2021 FROM

THE ACADEMY BLUES PROJECT

The Academy Blues Project’s third & final studio record of 2021 is PRODIGAL SUN – released worldwide via the band’s Witch Hat Recordings imprint.

PRODIGAL SUN is a transportive album, filled with acoustic recordings, long-form song suites and otherworldly folk tunes. From the initial fingerpicked reels of the record’s opening track “Fork,” it’s clear that the The Academy Blues Project are taking some new turns – darker tones, anxious moods, stranger and more ambitious modes of storytelling. ABP took their cues from a wide range of epistolary works, sprawling song compendiums, rock operas, tall tales and various red- & brown-hued records: George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, The Band’s self-titled Brown Album, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. The band also followed the aesthetic lead of longtime friend Laura Cypress’s surreal cover portrait – a true scorched-earth scene, photographed during the Willamette Valley wildfires in June 2020.

The Academy Blues Project’s PRODIGAL SUN LP is available on listening platforms on 30 December 2021. ABP will return with a follow-up record – which will continue the PS saga – in 2022.