The Wallflowers Exit Wounds

Jakob Dylan and company joined forces with musician-producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Green Day) to record this 10-song set, which is the band’s first release since 2012’s Glad All Over. Dylan tells Apple Music that working with Walker allowed him to “come in with the best [he has] to offer”, skipping the filler and the fiddling around common to many studio sessions and honing in on the sound—the melodic roots-rock of classic Wallflowers, made stronger by decades of touring and recording—he’d painstakingly envisioned. “I mean business and these records mean a lot to me,” Dylan says. “I kind of want to come in and just have everybody ask, ‘So, what the hell are we doing?’ And then drop a song out and everybody lights up.” Acclaimed country singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne lends vocals to four of the album’s tracks.