''Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!'' is the eighth studio album by American rock band

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, released on May 9, 2025 by BMG. It is a follow-up to the 2021 EP ''

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'', expanding the EP into a full album, and the band's first full-length album of original material since ''

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'' in 2014.

Background and recording

Writing for a planned four-song follow-up EP to the 2021 EP ''

'', tentatively titled ''Butter Miracle, Suite Two'', was initially completed by 2022. The intention was to also release both EPs together as a single album. While Duritz was performing backing vocals on two tracks from the

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2022 album '' Angel in Realtime'', he came to believe that the initial songwriting for the second EP was not strong enough. He decided to rewrite the songs and add an additional composition. Recording for the follow-up could only happen once the band was done with touring. Eschewing a second EP release, the full nine-track album, with five new songs in addition to the original suite, was finished in 2024, and was released on May 9, 2025.Counting Crows album ''Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!''
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Track listing

Personnel

Counting Crows * Jim Bogios – drums, percussion,

harmony vocals Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical ...

* David Bryson – guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals *

Adam Duritz Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is an American singer, best known as the frontman for the rock band Counting Crows, for which he serves as a founding member and principal composer. Since its founding in 1991, Counting Crows has sold ov ...

– lead vocals, piano, harmony vocals * Charlie Gillingham – keyboards, piano,

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organ,

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a Capstan (tape recorder), capstan, which pulls i ...

, harmony vocals *

David Immerglück David A. Immerglück (born May 3, 1961)''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, ...

– guitar,

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

, vocals, harmony vocals *

Millard Powers Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and Grammy-nominated recording engineer. While a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the 1980s, he collaborated wit ...

– bass guitar, harmony vocals * Dan Vickrey – guitar,

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, harmony vocals Additional musicians *Dave Drago – backing vocals - Tracks 6-9 *Curtis Watson – trumpet - Tracks 6-9 Technical personnel *

Brian Deck Brian Deck is an American music producer and member of the band Red Red Meat. He co-founded Idful Music Corporation in 1988. Since becoming a full-time producer, Deck has worked with bands and artists including Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Cali ...

–

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*Tchad Blake - mixing *Meghan Foley –

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*Beth Hoeckel – artwork *Neil Strauch – recording

Charts

References

External links

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