Finneas announced his second solo studio album For Cryin’ Out Loud! will be released on October 4. The lead single is available now!
The album will follow his 2021 debut Optimist and his recent success with Billie Eilish‘s Hit Me Hard and Soft which he co-wrote and produced. Finneas also produced the Grammy award winning track from Barbie. “What Was I Made For?.”
Finneas announced the album on his Instagram on Thursday saying, “I had the honor of making these songs with some of my closest friends, and I can’t wait for them to be yours,” Finneas captioned his announcement. “For now, you can listen to the title track, watch the music video, and pre-order the album on finneasofficial.com.”
In the video for “For Cryin’ Out Loud,” written and directed by Isaac Ravishankara, Finneas suffers Final Destination style defeats each time him and his lover breakup. After every death, he finds himself in a dark room filled being serenaded by brass players.
The sound of this new record may sound a bit different from Optimist, as Finneas decided to give it a full studio treatment straying from his usual method of recording his album in his bedroom.
“I made my last album completely alone in a room,” Finneas told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “And that was satisfying to some degree, because I just worked on it until it sounded how I wanted it to sound. But it was really lonely and I didn’t feel like, ‘This is the best possible way it could sound, I’m so glad I made it alone.’ I thought I did an OK job. So on this album, I’ve made a point to be hyper-collaborative. Fortunately, most of my friends are producers.” At the time, he had been in the studio with artists like Jack Harlow and Sara Bareilles.
The track list for For Cryin’ Out Loud features ten tracks including one titled “2001” which sparked fans’ interest as it was the year he became an older brother to Billie. Check out the full tracklist below.
1. Starfucker
2. What’s It Gonna Take To Break Your Heart?
3. Cleats
4. Little Window
5. 2001
6. Same Old Story
7. Sweet Cherries
8. For Cryin’ Out Loud!
9. Family Feud
10. Lotus Eater
Preorder the album HERE!
