From roughly 2014 until the end of the decade, you could expect a career-defining film role from Caleb Landry Jones playing a guy with greasy hair you probably shouldn’t trust pretty much every year. And although it’s been a while since we’ve seen him ruin a family dinner or subject a lover to NSBM, Jones has shown equal prolificacy as a songwriter since 2020 with his output being just as enticing and unpredictable. After introducing his solo project as something of a glam-bejeweled prog-rock cabaret with his ’70s-inspired debut album The Mother Stone, the title track for the latter half of his latest record fast-forwards things to the mid-’00s with what sounds like Death From Above’s fusion of crash-and-burn sasscore and upbeat dance-punk.
Following the release of the hour-plus-long Mother Stone and the two-parter Gadzooks, Jones is announcing a new deluxe version of Hey Gary, Hey Dawn that nearly doubles the album’s tracklist. “11 more songs than a vinyl can hold,” he notes, perhaps clarifying why the initial LP was capped at a relatively tight 13 tracks while also teasing the deluxe tracks as necessary companions. “Its additional contents I can only refer to as the rest of the album. I hope there are those of you out there who appreciate the longer listen with more bubble gum gump pixie romps to cultivate the shrinking hour.” I, for one, am eagerly anticipating Jones’ third act as a music journalist.
Alongside the news today, we’re also getting an official video for the aforementioned “Hey Gary,” with animator Aidan Stadler transferring the minute-long song’s manic pace to a series of tastefully bizarre illustrations. “‘Hey Gary’ contains over 600 ink drawings that at one point covered the floor and walls of my studio,” the artist shares. “I was a dweller of Caleb’s brain…and I liked it.”
Check out the video below, and pre-order the deluxe version of Hey Gary, Hey Dawn ahead of its September 13 release via Sacred Bones here.
