Third Man Records is proud to announce the first new LP in almost seven years from Brendan Benson. DEAR LIFE arrives via Third Man Records on Friday, April 24.

Bensons seventh solo album and first full-length release via Third Man, DEAR LIFE is heralded by the rhapsodic first single, Good To Be Alive. Good To Be Alive is kind of weird, to be honest, Benson says, But thats what Im most excited about. It says a lot about this record, its almost got a split personality or something. Its totally bizarre I still sit back and listen to it, thinking, thats so cool! Its like somebody else played it, its not the same old me.

Benson finds himself in an enviable spot as he enters the third decade of a remarkably creative, consistently idiosyncratic career an accomplished frontman, musician, songwriter, producer, band member, husband, and dad. DEAR LIFE marks this con