Roger Waters Unveils Track Listing for New Album, ‘Is This the Life We Really Want?’
Roger Waters has been teasing bits and pieces of his upcoming album since the beginning of the year. He's now revealed the track listing for the new LP, Is This the Life We Really Want?
The album contains 12 cuts, starting with "When We Were Young" and including the songs "The Last Refugee" and the title track, before concluding with "Part of Me Died." You can see the entire track listing below.
Is This the Life We Really Want?, Waters' first studio album in 25 years, will be released on June 2. Over the past few months, he's offered snippets of the record online and, last month, in a 30-second teaser video.
A new press release (via Rolling Stone) says the album is about "unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times." Radiohead and Paul McCartney producer Nigel Godrich worked closely with Waters on the project, even help steering its direction at one point.
Godrich, who is credited with arrangements on the LP, also performed sound collages, keyboards and guitar. Is This the Life We Really Want? also includes Gus Seyffert (on bass, guitar and keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Mannning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards) and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.
Not much else is known about the album other than it will continue Waters' line of concept records and that it started life as a radio play and is partly influenced by the Trump administration. Waters' last album, 1992's Amused to Death, was also a politically themed record, a look at the First Gulf War.
The new album's release will be preceded by the launch of a new tour, the Us + Them North American Tour, which kicks off on May 26 in Kansas City and wraps up on Oct. 28 in Vancouver. Waters will play more than 50 dates during the run.
Roger Waters, 'Is This the Life We Really Want?' Track Listing
1. "When We Were Young"
2. "Déjà Vu"
3. "The Last Refugee"
4. "Picture That"
5. "Broken Bones"
6. "Is This the Life We Really Want?"
7. "Bird in a Gale"
8. "The Most Beautiful Girl"
9. "Smell the Roses"
10. "Wait for Her"
11. "Oceans Apart"
12. "Part of Me Died"
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