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4 October 2026 – Jordie Lane Takes Habitual Back to Tape, Nashville and the Beautiful Risk of Musicians Playing Together
By Editorial Team - October 4, 2026
Summary
Australian songwriter Jordie Lane readies fifth album Habitual, recorded live to 16-track analog tape in Nashville, out October 9 via Blood Thinner Records.
Key Facts
- Australian songwriter Jordie Lane announces fifth studio album Habitual (out October 9 via Blood Thinner Records).
- Recorded live and all-analog to two-inch, 16-track tape at Nashville's The Bomb Shelter with producer LOLLIES and engineer Drew Carroll.
- Follows acclaimed LP Tropical Depression with upcoming tour dates across the US and Australia through December.
- Entities: Jordie Lane, Habitual, Blood Thinner Records, Tropical Depression, LOLLIES, Drew Carroll, The Bomb Shelter, Nashville, Australia
- Tags: jordie-lane, habitual, americana, indie-folk, analog-recording, nashville, blood-thinner-records, australian-music
Australian indie-folk and Americana songwriter Jordie Lane is preparing fifth studio album Habitual for October 9 through his independent Blood Thinner Records label, and fresh coverage today offers an unusually interesting look at how it was made. Rather than building the record layer by layer until every human imperfection had been politely escorted from the building, Lane recorded live and all-analog to two-inch, 16-track tape in Nashville.
Producer LOLLIES oversaw sessions recorded and mixed by Drew Carroll at The Bomb Shelter, with a band including drummer Jason Burger, bassist Elias Broxham, guitarist Trevor Bahnson and pedal-steel player Asa Brosius. Guest vocalists include Nathan Evans Fox, Caylan Hays and LOLLIES. The approach represents a deliberate move toward raw physical performance after Lane's previous album Tropical Depression reached number one on Australia's ARIA Country Albums chart and entered the US Americana Top 40.
Habitual runs eleven core tracks, with additional extended versions available digitally, and Lane is taking the record through US and Australian dates across October, November and December. In an era when software can correct almost anything, recording musicians together onto finite strips of magnetic tape suddenly feels oddly radical. The danger is somebody might play something unexpected. Fortunately, that appears to be exactly the idea.