Gary Marks announces ‘Crossroads,’ a new LP due April 18th via Lantern Heights Records, and shares its lead single “I Guess It Never Stops.” The album gathers nine previously unheard songs alongside rare tracks spanning five decades of writing, with each side of the record running chronologically from 1976 through the 2020s. It is a significant body of work from a songwriter who never stopped creating, even after the industry stopped paying attention.
The groovy, buoyant lead single arrives with a lyric that lands with the full weight of Marks’ five decades of writing about power, compassion, and freedom. He lays it out plainly: “We’ve been recalled to Eden, but somehow Eden’s not the same. Ancient rainforest chopped down, strip mined, carried off in trains. We all know we’re doing it as we tear down this place we’re in. See it in boardrooms as they divide their share of it. See it in classroom books with little lies built in. See fathers playing God, when children sin, they’re shocked. I guess it never stops.”
‘Crossroads’ has been selected as an official Record Store Day UK/Europe title for an April release, a vinyl exclusive tracing the continuity of a voice that has remained steady and powerful across generations. Lantern Heights presents some of Marks’ most musically masterful and lyrically pointed work, including rare tracks that have never been widely heard.
Refusing to tour, Marks kept writing long after the music industry moved on. ‘Crossroads’ is the record that makes the full arc visible, fourteen tracks that bridge generations and remind listeners why albums and ideas still matter.
‘Crossroads’ Track Listing:
- Castles
- Words / Reflections
- The Love We Take
- For Molly’s Sky
- The Elemental Line
- Every Man
- Signs
- Thoughts of Why
- Schoolyard Shadows
- The Grace to Be
- Looking Glass
- I Guess It Never Stops
- A Whisper Can Change the World
- Crossroads