In his album “Fuse” released Tuesday, Australian country musician Keith Urban fused synthesized sounds and organic instruments. He mingles keyboard or drum machine with the banjo, for example.
He also fused together recordings from different sessions to create songs like “She’s My 11,” which Urban told USA Today is “deceptively simple.”
It is the first album since Urban had a polyp removed from a vocal cord and a nodule from another. He had to retrain his voice following the surgery in 2011.
On “Fuse,” Urban teams up with singer Eric Church for “Raise ‘Em Up,” and with Miranda Lambert for the duet “We Were Us.”
He told USA Today that “Raise ‘Em Up” just seemed to fit Church. “It’s very cinematic, and he’s a very cinematic artist.”
A review by the Huffington Post notes that the album “shows Urban maintaining his consistency while challenging himself creatively.”
Keith Urban has been nominated Male Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards (CMAs). Also nominated are Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and Eric Church, reports Australian publication the Herald Sun.
Urban has also been nominated for his part in a Tim McGraw song, “Highway Don’t Care.” It has been nominated for Single of the Year and for Music Video of the Year.
Here are previews of four “Fuse” songs:
Somewhere in My Car
Raise ‘Em Up
She’s My 11
We Were Us
