Duchovny
says he began playing guitar several years ago: "I bought an expensive
guitar, because I knew I was too cheap to not play it." After a while,
he began sitting in with Los Angeles singer-songwriter Keaton Simons and writing his own songs.
The
album's title track and first single is a love song that harbors no
romantic illusions, with Duchovny singing, "I said I'd love you forever,
come hell or high water/Baby, the flood's in." It is currently
available for digital download.
The final song, Positively Madison Avenue, was inspired by seeing Bob Dylan's
commercial for Chrysler that premiered during the Super Bowl. The song
plays like a direct message to Dylan — at one point, Duchovny sings,
"Only you could write the song that could get to you" — but Duchovny
says he used his feelings about Dylan as a symbol of integrity and
truth-telling as a starting point to grapple with his own issues about
commercialism and selling out.
Duchovny plans to make some live appearances with the band but hasn't gone so far as to book a tour.
"I'm
lucky enough to be able to book some really great TV spots and get
exposure that a normal new artist, which is what I guess I am in this
field, wouldn't be able to get," he says.
No one sounds more surprised by this development than the actor himself.
“Making this record is a dream come true, but I never had this
dream—it’s still a shock when I think about how all this music
happened,” says Duchovny in a release. “What I do know is that I feel
these songs represent the truest expression that I’ve ever been able to
achieve and I look forward to sharing it with everyone.”
The album’s first single, the titular “Hell or Highwater,” is set to be
released on March 31, with the rest available for presale on Amazon and iTunes.
[EW] / Photo: Adam Bradley
Tracklist:
1 Let It Rain
2 3000
3 Stars
4 Hell Or Highwater
5 The Things
6 The Rain Song
7 Unsaid Undone
8 Lately It's Always December
9 Another Year
10 Passenger
11 When The Time Comes
12 Positively Madison Ave