Keith Urban Says Album Changed Because Of Lockdown
Featured Content
Audio By Carbonatix
Keith Urban is set to release his new album “The Speed of Now Part One” on September 18th, and he admits the coronavirus lockdown had an effect on the record. In case you missed it, Keith tells “Variety” the record was “mostly done” befor the lockdown began, but, he notes he "suddenly found that I’ve got a bit of extra unexpected time to keep writing.”
Keith says he wound up writing “several new songs” that replaced tracks that were already planned for the album, explaining, “I think it made the record a little more cohesive.”
“In hindsight, I mean, the truth is, I was quite artistically paralyzed for the first part of lockdown,” he said, noting it was a product from being incredibly busy to having nothing to do. “I’m like, what the hell? There’s no touring. There’s no going to other studios. There’s no collaborating with people. And I didn’t know what to do, honestly.”
Keith says for a few weeks he did nothing, but then eventually got back into making music. “And once I did, it was almost like a whole new drive to create came out of that,” he says. “But it definitely didn’t start out that way.”
- As for what fans can expect from the record, Keith shares, “Certainly there’s a huge amount of hope in the record. My albums have always leaned into the light as much as I can, because it’s how I try and live my life,” adding, “So I think this record has a lot of buoyancy and a lot of hope in it.
Source: Variety
