Mikal Cronin Announces New Album ‘Seeker’ & Shares Single

Singer-songwriter Mikal Cronin announced a new album, Seeker, due out on October 25 via Merge Records. He also shared a video for the lead single “Show Me,” directed by Yasi Salek.

Cronin wrote and demoed much of the material for Seeker, his first new album in four years, in seclusion at a cabin in the Southern California mountain town of Idyllwild.

“It was so quiet and peaceful,” Cronin said of the experience. “I got weird looks at the store. I got bug bites that didn’t heal for months. I walked around a small lake a few times. I wrote. I took literally something that’s usually a hypothetical, something every artist thinks about doing. It worked.”

After a series of fires sparked by an arsonist, Cronin returned to Los Angeles where he recorded the LP at Palmetto Studios with Ty Segall’s Freedom Band, of which he is sometimes a member.

“I brought a charred pine cone from the woods to the studio, just in case it would help,” Cronin said. “Fire — specifically its cycle of purging and reseeding the landscape — is a central theme to the record. Death and rebirth.”

Cronin also spoke about “Show Me,” stating:

“‘Show Me’ is a song about feeling small in an overwhelming world. There’s a not-quite-subtle hint of the Heartbreakers in the instrumentation and arrangement, having asked many friends to play or sing. It’s one of my favorite songs from the album, I hope you like it too.”

Watch the video for “Show Me” below: