ROLE MODEL’S NEW ALBUM, KANSAS ANYMORE, SET FOR JULY 19 RELEASE VIA INTERSCOPE RECORDS

Today, Role Model announces his sophomore album, Kansas Anymore, to be released on July 19 via Interscope Records. While his 2022 debut album Rx was about being in love, Kansas Anymore is inspired by homesickness, heartbreak, and the process of redefining oneself amidst those feelings.

With the album pre-order launch HERE, Role Model shared his new single, the soul-baring, feel-good track “Deeply Still In Love,” which was produced by Noah Conrad (Ashe, Niall Horan). Listen HERE. Anticipation has been building for “Deeply Still In Love,” with over 75 million combined views of content using the teaser audio prior to the song’s release.

Directed by Dylan Knight, the official video for "Deeply Still in Love" pays homage to the films Groundhog Day and Coyote Ugly, plunging viewers into a bar scene featuring an eclectic cast of characters and escalating mayhem. View HERE.

Fans who pre-order the digital edition of Kansas Anymore will instantly receive "Deeply Still in Love" plus the album’s first single, “Oh, Gemini,” which was produced by Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Maggie Rogers) and Todd Lombardo. Rolling Stone hailed “Oh, Gemini” as one of the “Songs You Need to Know” upon its release in March. OnesToWatch said, “Amidst a flurry of acoustic guitars and angelic harmonies, ROLE MODEL goes through the motions of heartbreak, holding onto the distant memory of an ex while simultaneously trying his hardest to let go.”

“It was a roller coaster,” Role Model says of the process of making Kansas Anymore. He first began working on the album in September 2022, while still touring his first album. By summer 2023, however, his life started to feel like it was falling apart.

“At a certain point— maybe it was a quarter life crisis I still don’t know — I became the most home sick I’ve ever been in my entire life,” Role Model recalls. The Maine-born performer started to go back home frequently, which complicated his romance with someone who lived back in California. “I was going home a lot and trying to find comfort in that way while feeling that relationship was suffering because of that.”

Half of the album was penned in the fall of 2023, after the relationship had ended, with him looking back and analyzing what went wrong. The album’s title, Kansas Anymore, comes from a song that got scrapped along the way. But the evocation of Dorothy’s famous line in The Wizard of Oz felt too symbolic of this moment of upheaval in his life to not still use.

Now 26, Role Model initially gained traction a string of independent singles in 2017, receiving co-signs from Benny Blanco and the late legend Mac Miller. He unassumingly caught fire with projects such as the oh, how perfect and our little angel EPs. In 2021, “forever&more” racked up 60 million Spotify streams as OnesToWatch christened it “one of our favorite songs of the summer.” DIY pegged him among its “Class of 2022,” and he embarked on a massive world tour with stops at Coachella, Hangout Music Festival, Bonnaroo and more. After attaining hundreds of millions of streams and selling out headline shows, Role Model released his full-length debut album, Rx, in 2022, which earned acclaim from HYPEBEAST, Interview, FLAUNT, People, CLASH Magazine and more.