Kevin Bronson on August 17th, 2012

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It’s been a long road for Tommy Walter, but the multi-instrumentalist (and co-founder of Eels) is on the brink of releasing his third album as Abandoned Pools. “Sublime Currency,” due Aug. 28 on Tooth & Nail Records, follows 2005’s “Armed to the Teeth” and 2001’s “Humanistic,” two releases that while critically well-received fell prone to the pratfalls of the music industry. In the years since, Walter has been busy as a side man, co-writer and producer for myriad artists – all duties well-suited to the songcraft on “Sublime Currency,” a sublimely polished album that figures to not only have the emo kids swooning but that, owing to Walter’s open-hearted confrontations with his own struggles, adults will find relatable as well. As returns go, Abandoned Pools’ is at least brave, if not happy.

||| Download: “Unrehearsed” (via RCRDLBL.com)

||| Live: Abandoned Pools plays the Roxy on Sept. 15. Walter does a solo turn on Aug. 28 at the Hotel Cafe.

||| Previously: Our 2010 interview. Download “In Silence.”