Sound & Fury

Sound & Fury (stylized in all caps) is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson, released through Elektra Records on September 27, 2019. Its release is accompanied by an original Netflix dystopian anime film, written and produced by Simpson with Japanese director Junpei Mizusaki of the animation studio Kamikaze Douga.
Background and production
Simpson and his band spent two weeks recording the majority of the album at the McGuire Motor Inn in Waterford, Michigan. They recorded the songs "All Said and Done" and "Last Man Standing" at the Butcher Shoppe in Nashville, Tennessee. Simpson produced the album, with co-production from John Hill and bandmates Bobby Emmett, Chuck Bartels and Miles Miller. He said that while making the album, he was listening to "a lot of hip-hop, and Black Sabbath, and the Cars, and old funk records and things."
Simpson said that while in Detroit, he was inspired after listening to Eminem to write "a bunch of mad shit-talking songs about how fucking awesome we are" but later began to think that what he and his band had produced was not "weird" enough, so came up with the idea to travel to Japan and "get the five most legendary animation directors in history together and get them all drunk and put them to competition to see who can outdo one another, and we'll just animate the whole fucking album". Simpson later characterized the album as a "sleazy, steamy, rock 'n' roll record", calling it his "most psychedelic" and "heaviest". Bobby Moore of The Boot described the album as "a collection of dystopian rock songs". Musically, Sound & Fury has been described by critics as blues rock, psychedelic rock, boogie rock, and synth-rock.In a March 5, 2018, interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Simpson revealed that he is working on his fourth studio album, and hinted that it would be a double album. The title of the album, Sound & Fury, was announced on July 21, 2019, at the San Diego Comic-Con, with Simpson describing it as a "sleazy, steamy rock'n'roll record". A companion anime film bearing the same name will also be released on Netflix. The album was officially put up for pre-order on August 20, 2019, with the track "Sing Along" being released the same day.
Simpson was originally going to perform at the Woodstock 50 music festival in August 2019, before the festival's cancellation.