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Role Model’s sophomore album, Kansas Anymore, was released today via Interscope Records. While Rx, his acclaimed 2022 debut album, was about being in love, Kansas Anymore is inspired by homesickness, heartbreak, and the process of redefining oneself amidst those feelings. The album is available HERE along with signed Vinyl and CDs and new Kansas Anymore merchandise. See below for track listing.

Today, Role Model shared the official video for “Scumbag.” A bittersweet reflection on a love that stands strong despite disappointments, the song was produced by Scott Harris, Jonah Shy and Noah Conrad. Shot in his hometown of Cape Elizabeth, Maine and directed by Will DeSena, the video takes Role Model back to his roots, where he wanted to capture every side of life in his favorite state. View HERE.

Role Model will celebrate the album’s release with an intimate, sold-out show at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA on Tuesday, July 23. The show will be livestreamed for fans across the globe, beginning at 8:30 PM PT on July 23. Tune in HERE. Role Model will also do in-store signings at Looney Tunes on Long Island (July 20) and Fingerprints in Long Beach, CA (July 24). In September, he’ll join acclaimed singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams as special guest on her sold-out The Secret of Us tour. Look for more touring announcements to come.

Earlier this week, Role Model performed “Deeply Still In Love,” another stand-out song from Kansas Anymore, on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” View HERE. The song has amassed over 11 million combined global streams and taken the internet by storm with more than 371 million views on TikTok across 40,000+ creates. Euphoria. Magazine said, “‘[‘Deeply Still In Love’] is the kind of track that grabs you by the hand and pulls you onto the dance floor of emotions…a rollercoaster ride of love, loss, and longing that’ll have you swaying and singing along in no time.”

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.” 

Role Model wrote the album’s lead single, the raw, intimate “Oh, Gemini,” with one of his musical heroes, producer Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves). He recalls, “I was writing a lot of songs about watching my relationship slowly fall apart and was bracing for that loss. I wanted to start slow and soft with ‘Oh, Gemini.’ There’s a lot more to this album that isn’t so dark and slow. It’s a summer album somehow.”

That summer-y sound comes across on “Look At That Woman,” a breezy, Seventies-pop moment from the singer. “That is a very nostalgic song that is looking back and regretting certain decisions and trying to cope with that,” Role Model says. “That was my coping song disguised as a nice, easygoing little jam.”

Now 27, Role Model initially gained traction with a string of independent singles in 2017, receiving co-signs from Benny Blanco and the late legend Mac Miller. He unassumingly caught fire with projects such as the oh, how perfect and our little angel EPs. In 2021, “foreverandmore” racked up 60 million Spotify streams as OnesToWatch christened it “one of our favorite songs of the summer.” DIY pegged him among its “Class of 2022,” and he embarked on a massive world tour with stops at Coachella, Hangout Music Festival, Bonnaroo and more. After attaining hundreds of millions of streams and selling out headline shows, Role Model released his full-length debut album, Rx, in 2022, which earned acclaim from HYPEBEAST, Interview, FLAUNT, People, CLASH Magazine and more.

Track Listing – Kansas Anymore

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