Eddie Chacon announces his new album Lay Low. The LP was produced by Nick Hakim, and will drop on January 31, 2025 via Stones Throw. The lead single “Empire” features John Carroll Kirby is out now with a music video directed by Bing Cao.

Lay Low arrives 30 years after the heyday of Charles & Eddie, the duo that brought Chacon fame in the ’90s. After two albums with John Carroll Kirby, Chacon teamed up with producer Nick Hakim for this album. Speaking about the process of making Lay Low, Chacon says, “At first, I was rusty, apprehensive. John was my security blanket. He mined the gold in me.” While he and Kirby are still very close, Chacon added that “the time felt right to leave the nest.”

The album was recorded over two years in Hakim’s Brooklyn studio. The first time Eddie and Nick connected, they recorded three songs in three days. “From that point forward it seemed like we’d been working together forever,” Eddie says, with Hakim helping build an intuitive framework for Chacon’s songs of love and letting go. For all the weight of its subject matter, Lay Low’s mood is sweetly seductive. “I wanted the mood to be hazy & sensual,” Eddie says, “There’s darkness, but there’s light to be found if you search for it. Nick understood this and created a musical landscape that feels awash in beauty struggling to find its way.”

Eddie Chacon 2024 Tour Dates

10/29 – Birmingham, UK @ The Hare & The Hound
10/30- Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
10/31- Manchester, UK @ YESPinkRoom
11/05 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
11/06 – Liverpool, UK @ Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
11/07 Nov – Gateshead, UK @ The Glasshouse
11/09 Nov – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
11/11 Nov – London, UK @ Jazz Cafe
11/12 Nov – Brighton, UK @ Alphabet

Pre-order Lay Low by Eddie Chacon HERE