Stream Ray LaMontagne’s new single “Hey, No Pressure”

By: Staff –

Ray LaMontagne.

Grammy Award winner, Ray LaMontagne, will release his sixth studio album, Ouroboros, on March 4^th via RCA Records. LaMontagne and Jim James of My Morning Jacket produced Ouroboros, and you can stream the first single, “Hey, No Pressure”, below.

Earlier this week, LaMontagne sent a postcard to a small group of fans with a preview of the album:

Ladies and Gentleman,

I would like to extend to you this humble invitation: to be among a select few of my listening audience to hear a passage from my latest composition titled Ouroboros.

Ouroboros is an album musically unlike any I have recorded previously.  It did not make itself known to me in sections, sessions, or moments carved out of the clutter of every day life.  It presented itself as the simple question: “Will you follow me?”

Of course I couldn’t say no. I had to follow. What else could I do?

I had nothing with which to record the journey that was taken. The album is merely an attempt to recreate, from memory, the landscapes, the colors, the sights and sounds that were experienced. I only thank God for the vividness of those experiences, and for the ease of their recollection.

I realize that in my invitation for you to listen, I am in fact asking something of you as well; for listening is not a purely passive act. Listening takes effort. To listen is to participate.

There can be no conversation without one who is first willing to listen.

And so I both invite you to, and ask if you might, sit, quiet your surroundings, quiet your mind, and listen as I present to you the question that was first presented to me: Will you follow me?

Yrs,

Ray LaMontagne