DAVID MEAD’S NEW ALBUM TANGERINE OUT MAY 16 ON TALLULAH MEDIA

“…compelling and endearing.”—Entertainment Weekly

On his new album Tangerine, David Mead moves beyond his singer-songwriter roots to create a more expansive sound than previously explored in his work. Tallulah Media releases the album May 16.

For Tangerine, Mead wanted to make a record that was “a combination of very high pop tempered with a sensibility that’s a lot more about being a solo artist than a singer-songwriter.” Teaming up with producer/multi-instrumentalist Brad Jones (Jill Sobule, Josh Rouse, Butterfly Boucher), he created an eclectic pop album that features 12 original songs recorded at Alex The Great studio in Nashville. Mead plays nearly a dozen different instruments on the record including piano, guitar, ukulele, mandolin, vibraphone and mellotron and is joined by Jones on bass, calliope, piano and other instruments. Other artists on the album include Lindsay Jamieson on trap kit and percussion, Chris Carmichael on violin and viola and David Henry on cello.

In keeping with Mead’s approach, Tangerine is a stylistically varied record. “Tangerine” serves as an overture for the album while “Chatterbox” is a lively, 70s styled romp and “Reminded #1” is an a capella gospel song. Lyrically, much of the material deals with the subject of married love. As Mead says, “When I got married, I sort of bought into this model that my parents laid out, assuming that some level of normalcy would accompany it. But it doesn’t. Life gets much weirder, actually. Thematically, if this record’s about anything, it’s trying to show that.”

Beginning with his 1999 debut The Luxury of Time, Mead has been creating well-crafted pop music that Blender describes as “dreamy and contemplative…” and No Depression calls “exquisite.” His previous four albums include 2001’s Mine And Yours and 2004’s Indiana. Mead is currently on the road playing select dates including at this year’s SXSW.