Bill Callahan’s New Video Is a Charming Homage to New York City

Bill Callahan has shared “Lonely Metropolis,” the second single from his February-bound album My Days of 58. The music video contains a photograph montage compiled by the road photographer Daniel Arnold, who paperwork the hubbub, glamor, camaraderie, isolation in crowds, small joys, small horrors, and seedy underbelly of New York in a photograph sequence shot over the course of 15 years. Watch it under.

In a press launch, Callahan describes his longtime dilemma over writing a track a couple of metropolis, relatively than individuals:

“‘Lonely Metropolis’ is a track I’ve been which means to put in writing for many years. It has been inside me that lengthy. I are inclined to focus my writing on people and the spirit inside. So writing about concrete and metal felt like a no go. Like I’m going to put in writing a track a couple of automobile subsequent?

However in fact cities are made by people so they’re human, too.

You will have a relationship with them, like associates. 

You get mad at them while you get a parking ticket, you like them after they give you a pleasant meal. 

It’s a track acknowledging all this.”

The primary single from My Days of 58, which is out February 27, was “The Man I’m Imagined to Be.” The core band that performs with Callahan on the brand new LP is similar as that of 2024 dwell album Resuscitate: guitarist Matt Kinsey, tenor saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and drummer Jim White. Jerry David DeCicca performs tambourine on “Lonely Metropolis.”