villagerrr, is the musical the project of Mark Allen Scott, release a new single “Honesty” a track off of their forthcoming album, Tear Your Heart Out, available March 22nd via Darling Recordings. “‘Honesty” is an old song of mine that I loved from a certain point in my life and wanted to rework it,” says Scott. “I think Cam’s vocals and Boone’s slide at the end really add so much.” On the heels of a midwest run with Lily Seabird, villagerrr will make their SXSW debut this March.

Now based in Columbus, Scott was raised in Chillicothe, in southern Ohio alongside the Scioto River. It’s a rural town that felt small and stifling growing up but, for all its faults, now feels like home as Scott got older. “I want to wear where I’m from and my family on my sleeve,” says Scott. “I’m proud of the twangy influence in my music from corny country songs I’d hear on the bus rides to school. I feel like I’m reclaiming where I come from and making it my own.”

Scott started villagerrr in early 2022 as a solo recording project and as a way to make music on his own terms by writing, recording, performing, and releasing everything himself. He thrives on pinpointing quiet, mundane moments and imbuing them with disarming emotional clarity.Following three quietly-released albums, Brain Pain, Ohioan, and Like Leaves as well as an EP, Something or Somewhere Else, Tear Your Heart Out is for long drives where the light shines through the sunroof, small-town get-togethers, and the times when you realize more about yourself and who you want in your life.

Although villagerrr is Scott’s solo outlet, it’s evolved into a much more collaborative affair with a five-piece live band. To record, he enlisted Teethe’s Boone Petrallo and his brother Dutch, alongside Scott’s touring band bassist Cam Garshon, drummer Zayn Dweik, and guitarists Ben Malicoat and Colton Hamilton. The resulting Tear Your Heart Out is an album about relationships, friendship, and heartbreak and how you internalize and deal with the conflicts and pain happening in your life. It’s the most assured and fully realized effort from Scott yet. It’s a new leap for an artist uncompromisingly doing things their way. “I’ve always felt a little bit like an outsider,” says Scott. “I wanted to convey the emotions and everything in a healthier way than I have in the past with recordings. It’s hopeful, a little melancholic, but smoother around the edges.”

villagerrr Tour Dates

Sun. Mar. 10 – Sat. Mar. 16 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
Sat. March 23 – Columbus, OH @ Cafe Bourbon Street w/ Wished Bone, Mukiss, & Julianna Money

Pre-order Tear Your Heart Out HERE