Harrison Lipton's lush sophomore album is both a rearview mirror and the long road ahead

HARRISON LIPTON’S LUSH SOPHOMORE ALBUM IS BOTH 

A REARVIEW MIRROR AND THE LONG ROAD AHEAD

BETWEEN US THERE RUNS A TETHER OUT TODAY VIA AMUSE — STREAM / PURCHASE ON VINYL

HOMETOWN NYC RELEASE SHOW THIS FRIDAY  AT PUBLIC RECORDS — TICKETS

GATHERED NY MUSIC SCENE COLLABORATORS YOT CLUB, MICHELLE, AND MORE BECAUSE IT TRULY TAKES A VILLAGE

Today, New York’s soft-rock lone cowboy Harrison Lipton has released his sophomore album Between Us There Runs a Tether via Amuse. An album that almost never was, its origins trace back to a breakup in 2021 that then saw Lipton pack up all his belongings and leave LA to move back to New York heartbroken. Inspired by those few weeks of driving aimlessly cross-country, he returned to the upright piano in the living room of his family home in Connecticut, and in one take holding back tears, wrote the song “All For Granted.”

“This album is a snapshot of my late 20s,” Lipton shares. “Feeling down and out, feeling pressured to find the right person to be with, trying to figure out where to go from here, looking in the rearview mirror and seeing the trailing end of a rope connecting the dots between highs, lows, mistakes, heartbreak, joy. And then at the same time, looking forward and seeing that same rope stretching into the future with all the endless possibilities and realizing that I’m just at one point on that line, because Between Us There Runs a Tether.”

Recently, Lipton has built up his songwriting and producing credits for other artists including MICHELLE, Yot Club and Morning Silk. His growing experience as a collaborator informed and shaped the artistic process as he revisited his own music:

He said, “I, in turn, wanted my own project to obsess over and tweak ad infinitum, an outlet to express myself. My circumstances of broken relationships and self-defeat meshed with my growing interest in the paradigm of the down-and-out songwriter, the lone cowboy who lost everything, and propelled me toward leaning into my own take on the soft-rock sound of the late ‘70s. I had finally allowed myself the space to create a record that felt very, very me. This is the truest manifestation of my love for music, and I hope it serves as helping people recognize that this is what a Harrison Lipton song sounds like.”

The initial concept of the album saw the gut-wrenching “All For Granted” as the closing track, but as Lipton sat with his work, he realized that after surviving the emotional gauntlet of the previous few years, the LP needed a more accepting verdict.

“As soon as I wrote ‘The End Of The Line,’ I knew it was the proper album closer,” Lipton explains. “Taking the lyrical themes of the previous songs and giving new meaning to them, it’s a story about moving forward and turning the page. Only twice on the album do I sing the line ‘between us there runs a tether’: first, on ‘Tether,’ when it’s a wishful thought at maintaining connection, and then on ‘The End Of The Line,’ when it’s followed by ‘but I chose the open road / and I’m alone again.’ Also harkening back to ‘On My Own,’ the thought of being alone now is freeing, and at the end of the record I’m released from the aspect of the tether that was tying me down.” 

As he artfully meanders through every stage of grief and recovery throughout, the album is tied together by a down-the-road perspective knowing he’s better off than he was when he first began.

Truly building a community around his work, from the guest features from Yot Club and MICHELLE’s Layla Ku, to using studio space from Ian Bakerman and Aidan Ludlam of booyah! kids, Lipton can’t help but to feel grateful. 

“The point is that it takes a village, and the fact that a community of NYC musicians came together and believed in this album is a tremendous gift, and one that I will cherish long after it’s out.” 

To celebrate the release of Between Us There Runs a Tether, Lipton will host an album release show at Brooklyn’s Public Records this Friday, May 9. The night will be opened by Fetch Tiger and Sofia D'Angelo. All show info and tickets here.

ABOUT HARRISON LIPTON

Harrison Lipton is a 31-year-old singer, songwriter and producer. The Brooklyn artist’s musical flair resides in the intersection of indie, R&B and 70s soft rock. Lipton prides himself on fully realizing a track from start to finish: leading the charge with songwriting, producing, and mixing, as well as creative direction. Lipton’s music is a product of his singular imagination, presenting a style that is sincere, authentic and all his own. His music has been featured in NPR and Atwood Magazine as well as on numerous editorial playlists such as Apple Music’s Late Night Menu and Spotify's Fresh Finds and Chill Vibes. Now releasing his second full-length album, Between Us There Runs a Tether,  Lipton emerges as a promising and unique voice, blending soulful vocals with singular and catchy production.

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