LANY Teams With Nashville Luminaries For Forthcoming Album ‘Mama’s Boy’
LANY is releasing a new single and video for “good guys,” the first track from the trio’s upcoming third album Mama’s Boy, which is due out later this year on Interscope Records.
The new album has Music City ties, since it was recorded in Nashville after the group finished the last leg of their world tour behind their 2018 album Malibu Nights. LANY recorded the album over the course of two weeks, joined by a host of songwriting collaborators including Dan Smyers of Dan + Shay, Shane McAnally, and songwriting power couple Sasha Sloan and King Henry. Others, including Adele co-writer Dan Wilson, also contributed to the album when the sessions returned to L.A, where Mama’s Boy was completed.
The album is a sweeping tribute to home and Americana packed with songs that highlight what’s symbolic of being an American kid today, and was in part inspired by member Paul Klein’s roots. “Someone asked me where I was from and somewhere, out of my spirit, I just said ‘Man, I’m from Oklahoma!’ It was a weird sense of pride, to be from the middle of nowhere,” he says of the realization that he needed to look to the country’s heartland for this album’s inspiration.
LANY, which includes Paul Klein, Jake Goss and Les Priest, formed in Nashville in 2014 and are now based in Los Angeles. They have a social media following of 5.8 million, and have played sold-out shows from L.A.’s Greek Theatre to London’s Brixton Academy, with arena shows in major cities planned for this album. Their songs have been streamed over 3 billion times and they’ve earned over 400 million video views to date.
