Art Garfunkel calls upcoming album "creamy make out" music

Art Garfunkel has shied away from calling his upcoming project a "standards" album. Garfunkel, who has recorded several evergreens for the still-unnamed album, prefers to call it a "lovers" album. He explained to Mississippi's Sun Herald that, "We made a creamy make out album... Long fades, so couples can just dance away from the living room to the bedroom. It's a romantic album. I just finished it. It's mixed, and I just got a (new) record deal."

Garfunkel, whose solo catalogue has included many different genres, including doo-wop, ballads, lullabies, calypso, and rock, says that above all else his music is good: "I call my music 'the good stuff.' You know how there's bad stuff, and then there's the good stuff? I'm in the latter category... I always attend to bass and drums and try to make it sexy, and dirty, and swing. So that's a rock undercurrent."

He added that, "I believe in melody, I believe in soothing, I believe in thinking, (and) being thoughtful. Make your audience listen to the song and examine something in human nature."

There's still no release date set for Garfunkel latest album, which reunites him with legendary '70s producer Richard Perry, but he hopes to have it out within the next six months.

Art Garfunkel will next perform on September 16th in Atlantic City at Harrah's Casino Hotel.
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