Keith Urban’s New Album ‘High’ On Tap For September

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Keith Urban‘s first album in nearly four years, High, is set to drop on Sept. 20 via Capitol Records Nashville.

The intentionally sequenced project touches on themes of what it is to be alive and the human connection, cutting loose, hope, nostalgia and straight-up fun, with some personal life revelations thrown in along the way.

“What makes you ‘high’ can mean whatever you want it to mean,” says Urban. “It might be physical, spiritual, herbal, meditative, chemical or musical, but it’s definitely a place of utopia. For me it’s my family, my friends, and this rollercoaster musical journey I’m on. Playing guitar, writing songs and the place where I always feel high—playing live. Every night I get a chance to bring an energy and a release to people.”

Urban points out that with highs, come lows, which came for him in 2022.

“At the time I was on tour. I’d do a concert, go back to Nashville to record, do a concert, and come back to record, and over again. So, I thought I’d call the album 615. That’d keep me on track—focused and disciplined,” he says. “There was no continuity. The songs didn’t work well together. I learned that what I thought was a framework to create within, turned out to be musically limiting.”

He’s releasing the new song, “Wildside,” from the album now. The good-time party tune is loosely based on Joan Cusack’s character in the movie The School of Rock. The song’s release follows the tracks “Straight Line,” “Go Home W U” with Lainey Wilson and High’s current radio single “Messed Up as Me.”

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High Track Listing:
1. “Blue Sky” (intro)
2. “Straight Line” (Keith Urban, Jerry Flowers, Chase McGill, Greg Wells)
3. “Messed Up as Me” (Rodney Clawson, Jessie Jo Dillon, Michael Lotten, Shane McAnally)
4. “Wildside” (Keith Urban, Ernest, David Garcia, Ashley Gorley)
5. “Go Home W U (With Lainey Wilson)” (Keith Urban, Breland, Sean Small, Sam Sumser)
6. “Chuck Taylors” (Keith Urban, Jerry Flowers, Chase McGill, Greg Wells)
7. “Daytona” (Nathan Barlowe, Steven Lee Olsen)
8. “Love Is Hard” (Eren Cannata, Shane McAnally, Justin Tranter)
9. “Heart Like a Hometown” (Casey Brown, Matt Roy, Parker Welling)
10. “Laughin’ All the Way to the Drank” (Keith Urban, Ben Burgess, Terence F. Clark, Mike Elizondo)
11. “Dodge in a Silverado” (Thomas Archer, Ben Stennis, Michael Tyler)
12. “Break the Chain” (Keith Urban, Marc Scibilia)

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