Albert Hammond JR. announces new album 'Momentary Masters'

The incredible Albert Hammond Jr. today announces the release of his brand new album Momentary Masters. Released on July 31 worldwide on Infectious Music, this new offering from The Strokes guitarist is his third solo release to date and first album in over five years.

Following the release of ¿Cómo Te Llama? in 2008 and his debut album Yours To Keep in 2006, Momentary Masters was recorded in Hammond Jr.’s home in upstate New York in a converted barn he calls One Way Studios.

It’s a record that reflects on missed opportunities, choices made, wasted time, and paths not chosen. He calls it "a love letter to my past self." The music might be largely buoyant-spry, breezy guitar lines locking together and dancing apart - but melancholy frequently seeps into even the sunniest of toplines. It's a record of acceptance, too. Tucked in the songs is an exploration of the reconciliation of two halves: the best self that you present to others, and the self that slips through and lies exposed when your guard drops.

"I feel like the best songs I've written, as soon as I was done, I was like, 'Oh my God, I did it!' But in that split second that it comes, that feeling goes," Hammond Jr. explains. "It's the same thing when you find complete happiness, you find this complete low. I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.”

Hammond Jr. recently premiered the first track to be taken from his new album, Born Slippy. An official release of the track will follow on July 20 and fans who pre-order the album will receive an instant download of the track. Listen to Born Slippy: https://soundcloud.com/alberthammondjr/born-slippy

Losing Touch, the next track to be taken from the album, premieres today and is also available as a instant download for fans who pre-order the album.

Full Tracklisting:

1. Born Slippy
2. Power Hungry
3. Caught By My Shadow
4. Coming To Getcha
5. Losing Touch
6. Don't Think Twice
7. Razors Edge
8. Touché
9. Drunched In Crumbs
10. Side Boob