Grackles Release New Single, “There Will Be Time”
NEW ALBUM GRACKLES DEUX: THE GRACKLING SET FOR AUGUST 15 RELEASE
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June 18, 2025: Austin-based rock/Americana/blues band, Grackles, today revealed “There Will Be Time,” the first single from their upcoming sophomore album Grackles Deux: The Grackling out August 15.
“‘There Will Be Time’ is the first song we recorded on this session,” frontman Noah Lit explains. “We set up, plugged in, got sounds, and…it was very much a ‘jolt of morning coffee meets the excitement of being back in the studio’ moment. Then we pressed ‘record’ and just went for it. It turned into a conversation exploring where we are as humans, is it time to fight, time to retreat, regroup? We want to do it all at once…”
The Austin Chronicle premiered “There Will Be Time” and said, “even more so on this second album, their sound is polished and self-assured, basking in the confidence of the core musicians and their collaborators.”
Recorded at Austin’s iconic Arlyn Studios, Grackles Deux: The Grackling was written in only four days. With no restrictions to genre, the group–consisting of vocalist/guitarist Noah Lit, drummer Jimmy Paxson (Keith Urban, The Chicks), keyboardist/producer Kyle Crusham (Paul Simon) and GRAMMY Award winning blues artist Jason Mozersky–camped out with tequila and fajitas and jammed, eventually inviting more of the Austin music community to join as guest artists. The result is 12 tracks with lush instrumentations including everything from strings to horns to a Hammond B3 organ.
“Austin is creativity – in music, in food, in culture,” said Lit. “It’s only fitting that we tapped into the spirits at Arlyn with a group of off duty Austin musicians. I always heard tales of how the records I loved were conceived. This cat or that one was available or this guy crashed a session. It was such a joy to be a part of something like that and to be able to include so many friends and musicians I’ve looked up to for so many years.”
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ABOUT GRACKLES
What began as a session without any expectation transformed into a creative wellspring that would take the form of their second full-length album. The earnest lyrics in songwriter and singer Noah Lit’s trademark baritone voice paired with vintage guitars, pedal steel, Hammond B3, string arrangements and dense background vocals combines rock, Americana and blues and brings to mind artists like Bruce Springsteen, Orville Peck, The Magnetic Fields, and The Mountain Goats.
Helmed by Lit, Grackles began as a side project of sorts for collaborators Jimmy Paxson, Kyle Crusham and GRAMMY Award winning blues artist Jason Mozersky. The outing’s first album emerged, last year’s Grackles, during a rare window of downtime—Jimmy on break from touring with The Chicks, Kyle between sessions with Paul Simon.
The follow up to Grackles, Grackles Deux: The Grackling, emerged from a break in a series of uncomfortable obligations. In their off time, Grackles found the inspiration they didn’t know they were looking for, and the result is 12 genre-spanning tracks of expertly performed arrangements and songs delving beyond the mundane of day to day life into a deeper beauty.