Eric Church will release his new album, the eight-track Evangeline Vs. the Machine, on May 2 — marking Church’s first release since 2021’s Heart & Soul triple project.

Church said in a statement: “An album is a snapshot in time that lasts for all time. I believe in that time-tested tradition of making records that live and breathe as one piece of art — I think it’s important. I’ve always let creativity be the muse. It’s been a compass for me. The people that I look up to in my career and the kind of musicians I gravitate to never did what I thought they were going to do next — and I love them for it. I never want our fans to get an album and go, ‘Oh, that’s like Chief or that’s like this.’ Painstakingly, I lose sleep at night to try to make sure that whatever we do creatively, they go, ‘Wow, that’s not what I thought.’ I think that’s my job as an artist.”

The new album features a mix of tracks solely written by Church as well as collaborations, featuring Church’s co-writers Casey Beathard, Scooter Carusoe and Luke Laird.

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