The String Cheese Incident Shares New Album ‘Believe’

On April 14, The String Cheese Incident will issue their new album Believe through their SCI Fidelity imprint. The band has shared a stream of their seventh studio LP in advance of its official release on Friday.

SCI wrote the bulk of the nine new songs making up the follow-up to 2014’s Song In My Head during a weeklong retreat held in a rented house in Sedona, Arizona in 2015. The group brought in Elephant Revival’s Bonnie Paine to supply added vocals on “My One And Only.” Produced by Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, Believe was recorded at the band’s recently unveiled recording space Sound Lab Studio.

“This was our second release we’ve done with Jerry, and he probably had more of an influential hand on the first one, in terms of really producing,” bassist Keith Moseley told All Music Guide. “On the previous record, once we got into pre-production, he had us change the key of a couple of songs to better highlight the vocalists, that sort of thing. On this record, he was influential in some of the arrangement ideas and some of the editing of the songs, but he had a bit more of a hands-off approach this time, as he was more accustomed to our style. I think we continue to evolve as songwriters, and are a little better at self-producing. So while he was very involved, it was maybe less dramatic this time than it was last time. I do agree that he was helpful in terms of arranging and editing ideas for some of the tunes.”

Head over to All Music Guide to read Keith’s full Q&A and stream Believe via AMG below:

Believe Tracklist

1. Believe
2. Sweet Spot
3. My One and Only
4. Down a River
5. Get Tight
6. Stop Drop Roll
7. Flying
8. So Much Fun
9. Beautiful