‘Por Favor’ is Dennen’s intimate and revealing new album, produced by Dave Cobb, fresh from his Grammy winning work with Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell, the record strips Dennen to his core as a songwriter with nothing to hide.

A follow up to 2013’s “Smoke and Mirrors,” his sixth studio album dives deep into loneliness, loss, and love and all its side effects. It’s the sound of an artist working through his insecurities in song, and thereby letting go of them. But it’s by no means a sad affair, nor is it the “rainy-day record” Dennen initially thought he was making.

Often framed by uplifting choruses and bright acoustic arrangements, these songs brim with optimism, the palpable sense that the tide is turning.

More than a decade after his self-titled debut catapulted him to stardom, Dennen was once again attracted to how he made his earliest recordings. “My whole approach was that I wanted to write and sing the songs from the same place that I wrote the first record, which was a place of trying to discover who I am,” he says.

That marked a detour from his most recent releases. With those he felt like he was exercising his craftsmanship – “being a songwriter for the sake of being a songwriter,” as he puts it.

“Just the sound of Brett Dennen’s voice captures the feeling of sitting in hazy sunlight.” – Esquire

“Eminently soundtrack-friendly folk.” – Entertainment Weekly