Less than a year on from their avant-garde dazzler Sun, NYC-based free jazz saxophonist Zoh Amba is back with a new record deal at Matador and an unexpected pivot to a guitar-based singer/songwriter style with "Another Time," the lead track from their just-announced new album Eyes Full, coming June 5.

Returning Amba to their first instrument, Eyes Full is described as a character-driven record rooted in the day-to-day lives of working-class, small-town Americans. “I hope these songs touch people’s hearts,” they say in a press release. “They’re about people who really need to be seen and heard.”

Watch the video for "Another Time" below:

Eyes Full was recorded together with electric guitarist Kevin Hyland and drummer Jim White at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, not far from where Amba grew up in eastern Tennessee.

Eyes Full is out June 5. Pre-order here. Tracklist below:

1. OCD
2. Another Time
3. Dead End Street
4. Thousand Years
5. Southern Soil
6. Eyes Full
7. Blueberry Thorn
8. Emahoy
9. Weed Eating
10. Odd Jobs
11. Child You’ll See
12. PG Tips
13. Smile With Your Eyes

Zoh Amba tour dates:

04/17 New York City, NY @ Nightclub 101
05/07 Asheville, NC @ Revival *
05/08 Atlanta, GA @ Vinyl *
05/09 Nashville, TN @ Blue Room *
05/11 Houston, TX @ White Oak *
05/12 Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom *
05/13 Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Arts *
08/11 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater #
08/12 Pittsburg, PA @ Roxian Theatre #
08/14 Cincinnati, OH @ Megacorp Pavillion #
08/15 Kansas City, MO @ The Truman #
08/21 Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom #
08/22 Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at the Complex #
08/24 Sacramento, CA @ Channel 24 #
08/26 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore #
08/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium #

* with Folk Bitch Trio
# with Courtney Barnett

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