Fresh from signing a deal with LA-based label ANTI- Records in April, offbeat folk singer and songwriter Darrin Bradbury has revealed that his new album Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs will be released on September 20th.

Kenneth Pattengale – one half of American duo Milk Carton Kids – has produced the album, which Bradbury recorded in Nashville in just two days, while the cover artwork was created by New York-born artist Henry Glovinsky.

Country star Margo Price – a long-time champion of Bradbury’s music – contributes vocals on The Trouble With Time, while Jeremy Ivey provides bass and piano, Alex Munoz contributes backing guitars, and Dillon Napier plays drums.

The album is preceded by a lead single – also titled Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs – which is a delightful refrain that features weathermen, talking animals, and more about a microwave oven than you’ve probably ever heard in a song before.

It’s reflective of Bradbury’s ability as a songwriter that he can take such a mundane everyday item, and weave into it a rich story told with great wit in less than three minutes.

It’s a talent that was on show in his previous work Elmwood Park: A Slightly Melodic Audiobook and earned that release some great reviews.

Describing Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs, Bradbury wrote on Facebook:

The album as a whole is intended for early morning conversation over coffee – a soundtrack to a day filled with nothing and everything all at the same time. On this one, I tried to look depression in the eye just to see if I could make it laugh a little.” 

Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs track listing:

1. Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs
2. Breakfast
3. Hell’s More or Less the Same
4. The Trouble with Time (featuring Margo Price)
5. Strange Bird
6. Nothing Much
7. The American Life
8. This Too Shall Pass
9. Motel Room, Motel Room
10.  So Many Ways To Die (Frozen Pizza)
11. Dallas 1963

Watch the video for new single Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs

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 Modern Americana-Folk