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Ezra Bell Releases New Single “cannonball wingman”

Ezra Bell

Releases New Single “cannonball wingman”

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Ninth Studio Album Chin Chin

Out October 24th via ONErpm PRESS HERE To Pre-Save

Los Angeles, CA – Ezra Bell, one of the 21st century’s most organically successful folk/Americana bands, has released their new single “cannonball wingman,” the latest offering from their forthcoming studio album, Chin Chin. Ezra Bell’s ninth studio album serves as a tribute to the band’s lead singer and lyricist Ben Wuamett, who unexpectedly passed away in October 2024. “cannonball wingman” captures a day in the life of someone spinning stories that may or may not be true. The gangster tale reflects Ben’s beginnings in the hip-hop world with that genre’s internal rhymes and syncopations finding their way, subversively or not, into his lyrics, while channeling Ezra Bell’s signature mix of raucous Americana, folk, and indie grit. PRESS HERE to listen to “cannonball wingman” and PRESS HERE to watch the official music video featuring live footage.

Set for release October 24th via ONErpm, Chin Chin was fully written and recorded before Wuamett’s unexpected passing last fall. The 11-song collection serves as both a way of honoring Ben’s life and musical legacy while also paving a way forward for Ezra Bell, an eight-piece band that has created its own sound featuring an unusual mix of street-hard lyrics with folk-pop and Americana sounds sprinkled with elements of rock, blues, jazz, and R&B.

Chin Chin includes Ezra Bell’s recent single “let me in,” which sums up the living contradiction that is the life of a man and the fate of a band, with lyrics that reflect Ben’s turn toward guarded optimism in the last years of his life. PRESS HERE to listen. The album also includes “tommy’s lullaby,” a single that was originally released in 2024 just weeks before Ben’s death. PRESS HERE to watch the official music video for “tommy’s lullaby.” Full album track listing below. Chin Chin is now available to pre-save on DSPs – PRESS HERE.

Ezra Bell first formed in Portland, Oregon in 2013, before later relocating to Salt Lake City. The eight-member “folkestra” – Ben Wuamett (lead vocals), Aaron Mattison (horns, backing vocals), Elizabeth Anderson (violin and strings, backing vocals), Tommy Mortensen (bass, tap dancing, backing vocals), Jonathan Myers (drums and percussion), Jeremy Asay (pianos and organs, backing vocals), David Asay (guitars and banjo), Maurice Spencer (guitars, backing vocals) – has since released a gusher of albums and EPs, generated tens of millions of streams, built up over a hundred thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, and played and sung its way into the hearts of countless loyal fans all over the US and beyond. While a Super Bowl commercial in 2015 featuring Ezra Bell’s cover of the Sam Cooke hit “Wonderful World” pushed them further into the limelight, organic growth has always been the main fuel for the collective’s journey. So much of that centers on the songs, with Ben’s distinctive keening, scratchy vocals delivering his often dark lyrics with a heart-on-sleeve honesty that fans find empathetic and even, according to some, lifesaving. Ezra Bell’s gritty, homegrown, eclectic approach to instrumentation and arrangements has also been part of its DNA from the start.

Chin Chin Track Listing

1. ghost

2. brave men

3. tommy’s lullaby

4. cowards

5. cannonball wingman

6. let me in

7. picnic

8. dada

9. it looks like love

10. try again

11. magical pill