Michael McDermott's Flowers From The Graveyard Cements His Place as One of America's Most Important Songwriters

New album arrives August 21, 2027 — 11 songs that may finally force the world to pay full attention

"Michael McDermott is one of the best songwriters in the world."

— Stephen King

"Despair never sounded so good."

— The Hollywood Reporter

"McDermott may prove to be one of his generation's greatest talents."

— The Washington Post

Some artists take decades to arrive. Chicago singer-songwriter Michael McDermott has been arriving — album after album, song after song — for thirty-plus years. With Flowers From The Graveyard, his new full-length on Pauper Sky Records arriving August 21, 2027, the arrival may finally be undeniable.

McDermott has long occupied a peculiar place in American music: extravagantly praised — by Stephen King, by the Washington Post, by Hollywood Reporter — and perpetually on the verge. Raised on the dual gospel of early Dylan and the Stones, Tom Waits and the Who, Woody Guthrie and Van Morrison, he has never made a record that fits neatly into a marketing category. That restless refusal to be contained is, of course, precisely what makes him essential.

Flowers From The Graveyard collects 11 self-penned songs that move fluidly between anthemic rock and bruised introspection, between political fury and hard-won philosophical calm. It is the work of a songwriter who has, as he puts it, stopped trying to control what was never his to control.