Veteran rock outfit Counting Crows will release their first full-length album in a decade this spring. “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” arrives May 9 via BMG, expanding on the band’s 2021 EP “Butter Miracle: Suite One.”
The Berkeley-formed group has already unveiled the album’s lead single, “Spaceman In Tulsa,” their first new music since 2021. The track maintains the band’s penchant for narrative songwriting while exploring new sonic territory.
“‘Spaceman In Tulsa’ is about metamorphosis—the way music breaks down who we were and spins us into something new. It’s about broken lives becoming something better,” explains frontman Adam Duritz, who has been the band’s primary songwriter since their formation in the early 1990s.
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The new nine-track collection follows a particularly active touring period for the group, who spent 2021-2023 playing sold-out shows across four continents after a three-year hiatus from the road.
Counting Crows first gained widespread recognition with their 1993 debut “August and Everything After,” which featured the breakthrough single “Mr. Jones.” The band has since released seven studio albums and sold more than 20 million records globally.
Their commercial peak came with their 1996 sophomore effort “Recovering the Satellites,” which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. The band later received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy nominations for “Accidentally in Love,” their contribution to 2004’s “Shrek 2” soundtrack.
The upcoming album’s track listing reveals a mix of new material alongside songs previously featured on their 2021 EP, including “Elevator Boots” and “Angel of 14th Street.” While the band has released various compilations and the four-song EP in recent years, “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” represents their first full-length studio album since 2014’s “Somewhere Under Wonderland.”
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