Jesse Malin ‎– Sad and Beautiful World | 2Lp

Jesse Malin may not drive much in his Lower East Side stomping grounds, but the New York City songwriter often puts his listeners in the
passenger seat. Onstage he tells a story about riding around as a kid with his absentee father, swerving around drunks in the street who, his
dad said, “had too many sodas.” And he can write a book about his early days driving a moving van for the Manhattan elite. Malin returns to
the car in his new song “State of the Art,” an upbeat roots-rock piano number that announces his upcoming double album, Sad and Beautiful
World.
Sad and Beautiful World will be released September 24th on Wicked Cool Records as the follow-up to 2019’s Sunset Kids, Malin’s collaboration
with Lucinda Williams and Tom Overby. Sad and Beautiful World marks his first double album release and is split up into two themes: One
album is the Americana-leaning “Roots Rock,” the other is the more rock-focused “Radicals.”
“We didn’t set out to make two records. But I had these songs that were more sad-bastard troubadour things and then I had others that were
more urban songs. For years, I put that together in my live shows — both parts of my personality as the guy who grew up on Iggy Pop but also
loved Elton John — and we figured out how to make it work here,” Malin says.

Tracklist

 DISC 1
1. Greener Pastures
2. Before You Go
3. State Of The Art
4. Lost Forever
5. Tall Black Horses
6. Get Out Of Here
7. Sinner
8. Dance On My Grave
9. Crawling Back To You
DISC 2
1. Backstabbers
2. The Way We Used To Roll
3. Almost Criminal
4. Todd Youth
5. Come On
6. A Little Death
7. Dance With The System
8. Saint Christopher