Pete Yorn - Back and Fourth

Last fall Pete Yorn traded the city sprawl of Los Angeles for the rolling plains of Nebraska to work on his new album Back and Fourth with Omaha producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley).

For two months, Yorn lived in a guest house behind Mogis's Omaha studio where he made the record. He spent his spare moments driving around Nebraska exploring the wide-open landscapes and writing. For the first time, Yorn wrote lyrics before composing melodies resulting in his most personal album to date. Escaping his everyday routine was something that shaped the new album. Yorn explains, "I think I found a different kind of inspiration there that helped carry the record home."

For fun Pete would check out local bands in Omaha, gamble on riverboats, and hang out with the Mogis family. "I had great conversations with Mike's dad," Yorn says. "Denny Mogis. He's a real interesting character."

Back and Fourth follows Yorn's first three albums, which he considers a trilogy, and is his first album in three years. The songs on Back and Fourth range from lilting mandolin lullabies to bracing anthems. But there's a thread running through the album - an organic feel to the arrangements, a careful pacing to the sequence, a penetrating truth to the stories - that's unmatched by anything else in Yorn's catalogue.
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