[Cover photo credit to Noa Griffel]

The Lumineers share two new songs from their new album, Automatic: “You’re All I Got” and “So Long.” Automatic arrives via Dualtone on Friday, February 14, 2025. Both tracks express a vulnerability that the band feels reflects their current lives.

The Lumineers’ fifth studio album, Automatic, marks their first new collection in over three years, following the release of a live album. They previously released the single “Same Old Song”.

After twenty years of musical partnership, Automatic finds Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites in new territory as people. Both men, now dads, “fully embraced the life-altering, unromantic challenges and rewards of family life.” When they reconvened to write, the emerging songs showed “bold acknowledgments of need – for love, respect, and connection in an increasingly chaotic world.” 

Wesley Schultz describes “So Long”, explaining:

We truly did that song live, in the moment. I think there’s a magic in there, and that’s what you hear coming off that track. 

For “You’re All I Got”, Schultz pushes his vocal range to its limits, as he explains:

It’s on the edge of where I can hit a note, so you feel that tension. When you’re saying to someone, ‘You’re all I got,’ it carries that same raw emotion.

Inspired by Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back, the band, with the help of co-producers David Baron and Simone Felice, set up shop in the tracking room at Woodstock’s Utopia Studio. Multiple set-ups, with two sets of drums, three different pianos, and an array of amps, guitars, vocal mics, were laid out, allowing the musicians to capture as much as possible with minimal delay. For the first time on a Lumineers album, the band is credited as co-Producers alongside Felice and Baron, who also engineered and mixed, as he did on the band’s last two albums.

Recorded in less than a month, the album, as Schultz says, feels “very much of this era.” It captures what Fraites calls “a palpable sense of connection between Wes and me.”, adding “There’s lots of love on this record.”