The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon is back with his first solo effort in five years, and he is still doing what he does better than anyone else.

Titled ‘Not Bad For New Jersey’ it will be released on September 10 via his own label Lesser Known Records. It serves as the follow-up to 2021’s ‘Night Divine’.

Brian had this to say about the record and where he has pulled inspiration:

“From the beginning I knew I had to fully lean into the passion and lunacy of all these songs I felt inspired by – there wasn’t much room for subtlety,” says Fallon. There was so much childlike joy in writing and recording all these songs. The whole album came together so naturally, with a level of creative fulfillment I hadn’t experienced in a very long time.”

The artwork looks like this:

And the tracklisting like this:

1. Not Bad for New Jersey
2. Better Before
3. Pearls
4. The Big Sleep (feat. Donovan Woods)
5. On Good Terms (feat. Lori McKenna)
6. Nobody Likes You in NYC
7. Love at the End of the World (feat. Brandon Flowers)
8. Somewhere You Shouldn’t Be (feat. Phil Collen)
9. Fading on Me
10. Walkin’ Through the Garden
11. Wolf by the River (feat. Marc Ribot)

You can check out the first taste of the record right now in the form of ‘Pearls’. A beautifully intimate, melodically vibrant and intimately thoughtful piece about what it means to overcome the odds when nothing has been handed to you. It’s a sentiment that has sat at the core of much of Brian’s music over the years, and is something that many a person trying to make the most of their time in this life will see themselves in.

“I’ve never been one to resent anybody for having certain advantages in life, and I don’t think there’s anything inherently pure in having to struggle. But I do think there’s real value in overcoming the odds stacked against you, because getting to the point of feeling like you’re actually worth something is one of the toughest mountains to climb.”