Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!
Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! is the eighth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on May 9, 2025 by BMG. It is a follow-up to the 2021 EP Butter Miracle, Suite One, expanding the EP into a full album, and the band's first full-length album of original material since Somewhere Under Wonderland in 2014.
Background and recording
Writing for a planned four-song follow-up EP to the 2021 EP Butter Miracle, Suite One, tentatively titled Butter Miracle, Suite Two, was initially completed by 2022. The intention was to also release both EPs together as a single album. While Duritz was performing backing vocals on two tracks from the Gang of Youths 2022 album Angel in Realtime, he came to believe that the initial songwriting for the second EP was not strong enough. He decided to rewrite the songs and add an additional composition. Recording for the follow-up could only happen once the band was done with touring.Eschewing a second EP release, the full nine-track album, with five new songs in addition to the original suite, was finished in 2024, and was released on May 9, 2025.
Personnel
Counting Crows- Jim Bogios – drums, percussion, harmony vocals
- David Bryson – guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals
- Adam Duritz – lead vocals, piano, harmony vocals
- Charlie Gillingham – keyboards, piano, Hammond B3 organ, Mellotron, harmony vocals
- David Immerglück – guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, vocals, harmony vocals
- Millard Powers – bass guitar, harmony vocals
- Dan Vickrey – guitar, 12-string guitar, harmony vocals
- Dave Drago – backing vocals - Tracks 6–9
- Curtis Watson – trumpet - Tracks 6–9
- Brian Deck – production
- Tchad Blake – mixing
- Meghan Foley – art direction
- Beth Hoeckel – artwork
- Neil Strauch – recording