Zohaib On his acclaimed 2024 sophomore album, Kansas Anymore, Role Model laid his heart bare and fans embraced him as he grieved his previous relationship on the set of folk-tinged, lyric-driven songs. Combined global streams of the album quickly surpassed 139 million and 90 thousand tickets to the No Place Like Tour were snapped up around the globe. Now Role Model is back, charting his emotional journey with four new songs included in the album’s digital deluxe edition. Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye) was released today via Interscope Records. Listen HERE. See below for track listing.
Noah Conrad (Niall Horan, Ashe) – one of Role Model’s collaborators on the album’s 13 original songs – produced each of the four new songs, with Mason Stoops co-producing the final track, “The Longest Goodbye.”
On the infectious “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out,” Role Model ventures tentatively into a new romance, pleading, “Sally/That feeling’s coming around/Please don’t go falling in love/Then disappear when the wine runs out.” Listen HERE. After Role Model teased the track, “Sally” began trending on TikTok and now has 35,000 creates and 150 million views on the platform. Role Model introduced “Sally” earlier this month on the Australian/New Zealand leg of his tour.
Lyric videos debuted today for each of the four new songs. View HERE. “Old Recliners” is a slice of bittersweet nostalgia, celebrating simple but meaningful rituals. Role Model finds it hard to resist his guardian instincts on “Some Protector” and, as he brings things to a conclusion with the old-timey “The Longest Goodbye,” he confides, “And I don’t think I love you anymore/But I don’t think I’ll ever be so sure.”
On February 24, Role Model will kick off the North American leg of the No Place Like Tour world tour in Phoenix at The Van Buren. As the dates quickly sold out, additional shows were added. The run includes shows at New York’s Brooklyn Paramount (March 15) and The Wiltern in Los Angeles (April 1 & 2). Debbii Dawson is supporting on all dates except Denver. See below for itinerary or visit https://RoleModel.lnk.to/NPLTour.
Following the tour, Role Model will play numerous festivals, including The Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Hinterland. After releasing Kansas Anymore in summer 2024 and supporting Gracie Abrams on her sold-out fall tour, Role Model found many new fans and has seen explosive growth on social media, gaining over 340 million new followers. He’ll join Abrams on the summer 2025 North American leg of The Secret of Us tour.
Awarding Kansas Anymore four stars, DIY marveled that “a record ostensibly about heartbreak and homesickness can be so overwhelmingly fun, using both genre and trope in parallel ways with just the right level of self-awareness and humour along the way…” In another four-star review, Dork observed, “Role Model’s latest is an artful deviation from his debut, ‘Rx.’ It more boldly leans into folkish roots, choosing breezy, sun-tinged melodies even when navigating the album’s subject matter feels treacherous.”
Track Listing – Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye)
(new songs in bold)
1. Writing’s On The Wall
2. Look At That Woman
3. Scumbag
4. Oh, Gemini
5. Frances
6. Superglue
7. The Dinner
8. Deeply Still In Love
9. Slut Era Interlude
10. So Far Gone (feat. Lizzy McAlpine)
11. Slipfast
12. Compromise
13. Something, Somehow, Someday
14. Old Recliners
15. Sally, When The Wine Runs Out
16. Some Protector
17. The Longest Goodbye
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