Pitchfork

San Francisco producer/songwriter John Vanderslice will release his sixth solo full-length via Barsuk on July 24.

Titled Emerald City in reference to Baghdad's Green Zone (though we're not entirely sure why), Vanderslice wrote the majority of the record during a still-unresolved legal struggle with U.S. Immigration over obtaining a visa for his girlfriend, a French citizen he met in Paris.

Emerald City is also distinct for featuring the fewest tracks, at nine, of any Vanderslice full-length so far, as well as being his first album with his face on the cover.

Emerald City was recorded mostly live in Vanderslice's own Tiny Telephone studio, and in addition to Vanderslice, it also features the musical prowess of David Broecker, Dave Douglas, Ian Bjornstad, and Scott Solter.

Emerald City:

01 Kookaburra
02 Time to Go
03 The Parade
04 White Dove
05 Tablespoon of Codeine
06 The Tower
07 The Minaret
08 Numbered Lithograph
09 Central Booking