Dave Matthews Band new album 2012: What we know so far

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Thanks to the Dave Matthews Band new album, 2012 will be an exciting year for DMB fans.

DMB has been exceptionally tight-lipped about the new album, but some information has come out here and there. This list features all the confirmed details we have so far.

We’ll update this list with more Dave Matthews Band new album information as it becomes available, so check back often.

Dave Matthews Band new album 2012 details

DMB entered a Seattle studio in early January with producer Steve Lillywhite. The band played the songs live, Lillywhite took drum recordings from those performances, and then the band members re-recorded their parts over those drum tracks. It only took six hours to record all of the horn parts for the new DMB album.

Dave Matthews Band’s new album will be out in September.

Lillywhite was mastering the album, the final step in the production process, on May 2. Mastering usually takes a day, according to an earlier tweet.

The first song confirmed for the new album is “Mercy,” which Dave Matthews performed on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in April. That slow, acoustic version was not like the album recording, which Lillywhite said is “not just acoustic” and “not quiet.”

Another song confirmed for the new album is “Gaucho,” which DMB released as a free download May 18.

The new album is “about 55 minutes” long, according to Lillywhite, with somewhere between 11 and 15 tracks. The shortest song is “2 [minutes] and change,” and there is a track longer than eight minutes.

The last track on the new album is Lillywhite and Stefan Lessard’s favorite last track from any DMB album. Lillywhite described it as “very uplifting.” “Mercy” is not this song, and “Gaucho” isn’t either.

Lillywhite compared the album to DMB’s “big three” (Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash and Before These Crowded Streets) by using the term “Big 4” in a February tweet.

Tower of Power’s Roger Smith plays keyboard on “a couple of tunes” on Dave Matthews Band’s new album. His specific instrument is a Hammond organ.

There are no old recordings of LeRoi Moore on the album. The saxophone parts are “all Jeff [Coffin].”