Morris, T. Hardy - Artificial Tears (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 08-August-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

The line between art and entertainment has always been fuzzy. Certainly, there’s plenty of overlap between the two, but lately it feels like there’s a growing divide, an ever-widening chasm separating our fundamental need for creative expression and our insatiable appetite for disposable content. That’s where T. Hardy Morris comes in.

“I’ve spent a lot of time parsing the difference between the two,” he explains, “not just for myself, but for society at large. What does it mean to be an artist? How do we measure creative success? Where are the boundaries between audience and performer when everyone’s broadcasting their lives 24/7?”

Morris dives into those questions headfirst on his riveting new album, Artificial Tears, and while the answers don’t come easily, the search yields plenty of reward. Recorded in Nashville with My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel at the helm, the collection is an electrifying work of existential exploration, a raw, rock and roll reflection on meaning and identity in a modern world that’s simultaneously more connected and isolated than ever before. Despite the weighty ruminations at its core, the result is a remarkably grounded, down to earth album that’s at once honest and abstract, a poignant, clear-eyed look in the mirror from a master craftsman committed to his work for nothing more—and nothing less—than its own intrinsic value.

A1. Write It In The Sky A2. I Guess A3. Juvenile Years A4. Breakneck Speed A5. Don’t Kill Your Time (To Shine) A6. Sweet Success B1. Low Hopes B2. Poets In The Mist B3. Knowing Me B4. Shadows Of Doubt B5. Fight Forever B6. Trouble Will