For two years, Matt Myers struggled to finish new songs. “I was all raw emotion,” says the Houndmouth frontman, who’d spent the previous decade blending rock & roll and American roots music into radio staples like the chart-topping, platinum-selling “Sedona.” He’d written four albums in less than 10 years, but inspiration just wasn’t showing up anymore. “I was feeling so much that I just couldn’t write anything,” he adds. The end of one relationship. The beginning of another. The all-consuming feeling of new love. Myers’ life had been eventful, both onstage and off, and all that living didn’t leave him much time to create. Things changed when he paid a visit to Brad Cook, the Grammy-winning producer who’d overseen Houndmouth’s fourth record, Good For You. What began as a reunion of two friends soon gave away to something bigger: the restart of Myers’ songwriting engines and, in its wake, the creation of Lordy.