Pete Muller does not make small records. The new music video for “Stopping Time,” a highlight from his album ‘One Last Dance’ out now via Two Truths Music, offers a behind-the-scenes look at a track recorded at Peter Gabriel’s legendary Real World Studios in Bath, England, with additional overdubs captured at New York City’s famed Power Station. The locations alone tell you something about the ambition at work here.
The song itself is a plea against the clock, unfolding through emotionally resonant vignettes exploring longing, memory, and the stories we construct to make sense of time passing. Genre-bending duo SistaStrings provide rich orchestration alongside Rob Mathes’s string arrangement, and the combination gives “Stopping Time” a cinematic texture that rewards close listening. It is one of the most quietly affecting tracks on an album full of them.
‘One Last Dance’ is Muller’s most vulnerable songwriting to date, self-produced alongside his band the Kindred Souls and featuring Grammy-winner Allison Russell on the Latin-flavored title track. Other highlights include the empowering “Fire Child,” the uplifting “Dream Small,” and the bittersweet “New York In The Rain.” Americana UK and Americana Highways have both offered praise, and the album earns every word of it.
This is Muller’s fourth studio release in five years, following 2024’s ‘More Time’, which drew acclaim from Consequence and Rock & Roll Globe. His path here is genuinely compelling: after success in quantitative finance, he followed his creative instincts, built a catalog, and earned tour dates alongside John Oates, Lisa Loeb, Jimmy Webb, Livingston Taylor, and Paul Thorn, plus festival slots from Telluride to Montreux.
Muller also founded the nonprofit Live Music Society, which provides critical grants to independent music venues across the country. He is an artist and an advocate, and ‘One Last Dance’ reflects both sides of that commitment fully.