Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat sums up the bittersweet tone on Carbon Leaf’s follow up to Indian Summer, and marks their richest songwriting to date. Riding with the band’s creative ascent, the 11 tracks gelled during a three-week rush of energy in Nashville with veteran producer Peter Collins (Bon Jovi, Elton John, Rush, Jewel).

“I personally needed songs that were going to be emotionally available to the listener and to us as a band,” Privett explains, “without trying to mask what I was really trying to say. We worked very hard to expose and scrap anything that wasn’t needed musically. The result is a more immediate and vital sound both musically and lyrically.”

And it’s worth getting close to what the band has to say. Fleshing out the material in a cabin on the Room and Board studio grounds, and then rolling tape as soon as the sketches were freshly arranged, the songs capture an urgency, immediacy and emotional impact not heard on previous Carbon Leaf albums.

“It was a real trying time for the entire band leading up to recording and a strong exercise in being stripped of your comfort zones. Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat examines the human cycle we all go through in love and loss: Joy and peace, fear and desperation, anxiety, regret, breaking down and facing the mistakes you’ve made, and ultimately rising and rebuilding as you go through life with a greater understanding of purpose and the real human need for each other. These songs examine the humanity of everyday life.”

Tracklisting:
1. Learn To Fly
2. Love Loss Hope Repeat
3. Under The Wire
4. Royal One
5. A Girl And Her Horse
6. Texas Stars
7. Block Of Wood
8. Comfort
9. The War Was In Color
10. Bright Lights
11. International Airport