Sean Lennon Returns With Friendly Fire

John Lennon's youngest son, Sean Lennon, will release his long-awaited sophomore album on September 26 via Capitol Records.

Friendly Fire marks Lennon's first release since his 1998 Into The Sun debut. In the eight years since then, Lennon has kept busy collaborating with a number of artists, including Handsome Boy Modeling School, Deltron 3030, Vincent Gallo, Thurston Moore, John Zorn, Ryan Adams, The Boredoms, Ben Lee and his mother, Yoko Ono. Lennon believes that the large gap between releases allowed Friendly Fire to evolve naturally.

"There was a long period after the first album where I felt disillusioned with the machinery of the industry. It's not that I stopped recording, playing and performing. I did all those things, just more discreetly. Friendly Fire's an experiment to see what it might be like to do music more publicly again."

Friendly Fire was written and produced by Lennon, who played almost all of the instruments on his debut, but features a variety of collaborators. Recording began after Lennon contacted producer/engineer Tom Biller and Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain. He then expanded his guest list to include Jon Brion (organ, drums, guitar), Yuka Honda (piano, keyboards, bass), Paul Simon's son Harper Simon (guitar), Bijou Phillips (background vocals) and others.

In conjunction with the new record, Lennon and director Michele Civetta created short films to complement each song. The shorts comprise a conceptual film about betrayal and the failure of love and feature Lennon along with cameos by the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Asia Argento, Carrie Fisher, Devon Aoki, Jordana Brewster and Phillips.

Here are the tracks on Friendly Fire:
"Dead Meat”
“Wait For Me”
“Parachute”
“Friendly Fire”
“Spectacle”
“Tomorrow”
“On Again, Off Again”
“Headlights”
“Would I Be The One”
“Falling Out Of Love"