Will Oldham announces Lie Down in the Light details

Will Oldham is preparing his latest release under the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy moniker. Titled Lie Down in the Light, the record will come out on May 20, and will feature Emmett Kelley, Shahzad Izmaily, Ashley Webber and Oldham's brother, Paul.

The dozen-song disc will be available on Drag City Records, and it will be available in the UK a day early. (This is something to think about, especially if you have a stimulus check burning a hole in your pocket.) Oldham will tour Europe through June and July.

We last left Billy after 2006’s album, The Letting Go, but since then he has made forays into many other worlds of entertainment: standup comedy at Chicago’s Weeds club, a cover album reaching from R. Kelly to Björk, a lead role in full-length film, Old Joy, and a video with Zach Galifianakis for Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.”

His most recent (and illicit) endeavor involves some chocolate-covered mushrooms and film director Caveh Zahedi. Zahedi contacted Oldham after using a song of his in a movie to ask if Oldham would do shrooms with him on tape. Zahedi is hoping to make a television series entitled Tripping with Caveh, assumedly in which he hallucinates with noteworthy people and records what happens.

Footage from this particular trip involves Zahedi putting hay in his hair while talking about celestial bodies and Oldham jumping on a trampoline. No word yet on if any of the major networks have picked it up, so you should probably just watch it for yourself.

Lie Down in the Light tracklist:

1. Easy Does It
2. You Remind Me of Something (The Glory Goes)
3. So Everyone
4. For Every Field There's a Mole
5. (Keep Eye On) Other's Gain
6. You Want That Picture
7. Missing One
8. What's Missing Is
9. Where's the Puzzle?
10. Lie Down in the Light
11. Willow Trees Bend
12. I'll Be Glad