Today, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, who NPR Music has hailed as “one of the nation’s best live bands,” share “Fall Moon” the latest single from their forthcoming 6th studio album, the self-titled St. Paul & The Broken Bones (October 10th, Oasis Pizza Records). “‘Fall Moon’ is a love song that is written for someone who loves words by someone who feels they lack the vocabulary to match that energy,” shares the band’s Paul Janeway. “A song meant to be read on paper. There are references of grammatical errors. Tongue in cheek. I can’t help but sing it with a smile. The original verse melody came from a trombone melody that our very own Chad Fisher wrote. I thought it was such a good melody that it shouldn’t be wasted on the trombone but for the verse vocal melody. The chorus was birthed by the band sitting in the studio together and it magically came out. This is probably the happiest song St. Paul & The Broken Bones has ever written. Don’t get used to it.” Listen to “Fall Moon” here and watch the visualizer here.
The band will release their 6th studio album, the self-titled St. Paul & The Broken Bones, on October 10th via their own label Oasis Pizza Records, distributed by Thirty ]Tigers. The album, from the ever-evolving Southern-soul giants, signifies both a reinvention and a reunion, stretching out with the confident experimental spirit of The Alien Coast and (2022) and Angels in Science Fiction (2023), but with a warmer, accessible and fun sound that recalls the exuberance and buoyancy of their breakout debut, Half the City (2014). “It’s the outcome of the book we wrote with the last records,” Janeway says, “The self-titled album is what the band is now. I think the band in general feels reignited. I’ve had this conversation with bassist and co-founder Jesse Phillips, who said, ‘I don’t know where we can take this. But we have the opportunity to make any kind of record we want. Before, the band thought, ‘How far can we take it?'” Now? “It’s ‘What is the band great at? What lessons have we learned?’” St. Paul & The Broken Bones is available for pre-order on all formats here.
The band recently announced their tour of the UK and Europe in January and February of 2026 in cities including Manchester, Glasgow, London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, and more. Tickets for all dates are on sale now here.
With the new LP, co-written and produced with the decorated Eg White (Adele, Florence + The Machine, Sam Smith) and tracked with the band – consisting of Janeway, Phillips, guitarist Browan Lollar, drummer Kevin Leon, keyboardist Al Gamble, trumpeter Allen Branstetter, saxophonist Amari Ansari, and trombonist Chad Fisher— at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, the band decided to stop pushing so hard and simply focus on classic “song craft.” For Janeway, these 10 thrilling tunes feel like “comfort food,” like hanging out at a “great barbecue joint.”
The album follows 2023’s Angels In Science Fiction and with that vibrant era in the rear view, there was an opportunity to regroup, which resulted in a return to their roots, if through a circuitous path. Janeway started collaborating with a series of co-writers and featured artists, eventually finding the perfect partner in White: a prolific, London-based pop-rock veteran who’s co-written and produced hits with stars like Adele (“Chasing Pavements”) and Celine Dion (“Water and a Flame”). Aided by that expert ear, Janeway finished a batch of new music he was proud of—but he pivoted back to full-band mode in January ’24, regrouping with his old friends at FAME Studios, where they’d mixed their debut, Half the City, over a decade earlier.
It had been several years since they’d written together in this format and the session and Phillips asked an intriguing question: ‘Hey, man, can I hear some of the stuff you wrote with Eg White?” Janeway was initially reluctant to bring this music “into the band sphere,” but his co-founder convinced him otherwise. They dusted off some of those tracks, melding them with the new group-written material “Basically our philosophy for the record was ‘best song wins,'” the frontman says.
The resulting songs felt like a comforting hug, lived in, confident, and fun. “Fall Moon,” includes a rippling Hammond organ and nostalgic brass; the bluesy “I saw the light” with a chorus of the swaggering “Ooo-Wee”; the stabbing electric keys and signature falsetto sweetness on “I Think You Should Know”; the deep-pocket bass and growling hooks on “Nothing More Lonely”; the breezy slice-of-life that is “Seagulls,” St. Paul still branches out in subtle ways stretching out the experimental muscles the band has developed over the years.
With St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Janeway felt like they’d taken their sonic searching as far it could go—or at least “without doing some kind of death-metal album.” But it raised a lot of important questions: “‘What are we doing? What is the band now?’ You go through that kind of identity-crisis stuff. What is the band, and is this still creatively satisfying?” The answer is a resounding yes. “Making this record was a long journey, but I think it’s one of those rare times where it felt really worth it,” Janeway says. “It feels very much like a renewed energy. And who knows? We might make our death metal record next.”
ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN- ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN TRACKLISTING
- Sushi and Coca-Cola
- Fall Moon
- Ooo-Wee
- Sitting In The Corner
- I Think You Should Know
- Nothing More Lonely
- Stars Above
- Seagulls
- Change a Life
- Going Back
St. Paul & The Broken Bones Tour Dates [NEW DATES IN BOLD]
Sat Aug 16 Marina Del Rey, CA Burton Chace Park (Summer Series)
Sat Aug 30 Sea Island, GA Sea Island Resort Festival
Sat Sept 13 Cavendish, PEI Sommo Festival
Thurs Sept 18 Savannah, GA Victory North*
Fri Sept 19 Greenville, SC Euphoria Festival
Sat Sept 20 Franklin, TN Harpeth Conservatory (Benefit show)
Sun Sept 21 Pelham, CA The Caverns*
Wed Sept 14 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theater*
Thurs Sept 25 Montgomery, AL Montgomery PAC*
Fri Sept 26 Columbia, SC The Senate*
Sat Sept 27 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheater**
Sat Oct 4 Gretna, LA Gretna Fest
Thurs Oct 16 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall
Sun Oct 19 Clearwater, FL Clearwater Jazz Holiday Festival
Fri Nov 7 Miramar Beach, FL Whiskey Moon at Seascape Resort
Thurs Jan 22 Bristol, UK Electric Bristol
Fri Jan 23 Newcastle, UK Newcastle NX
Sat Jan 24 Manchester, UK New Century Hall
Sun Jan 25 Glasgow, UK Old Fruit Market
Tues Jan 27 Leeds, UK Irish Centre
Thurs Jan 29 Nottingham, UK Rock City
Fri Jan 30 London, UK O2 Forum Kentish Town
Sat Jan 31 Birmingham, UK The Crossing
Mon Feb 2 Leuven, BE Het Depot
Tues Feb 3 Paris, FR Le Trabendo
Wed Feb 4 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso
Fri Feb 6 Berlin, DE Columbiahalle
Sat Feb 7 Hamburg, DE Mojo Club
Mon Feb 9 Aarhus, DK Voxhall
Tues Feb 10 Copenhagen, DK Amager Bio
Wed Feb 11 Oslo, NO Cosmopolite Scene
Thurs Feb 12 Stockholm, SE Debaser Strand
*with w/ Lamont Landers
**with Lake Street Dive
Photo Credit: Anthony Abu-Hanna
TheWaster.com | Fall Moon
8.15.2025
