Kevin Bronson on June 24th, 2021

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A month after releasing his first new single in two years, soft crooner Michael Seyer has announced that his new album “A Good Fool,” will be out Sept. 24.

It’s an album, he explains, that was written and recorded during the pandemic in his new studio. “My gear was all over the place, in a new recording space,” Seyer says. “And making a new record for me is always a process of relearning, but it’s fun and so a lot of these songs kind of just started off simple, usually with an acoustic guitar.”

The singer-songwriter tackles issues such as sexuality, mental health and race over the 11 tracks on the album — the latter issue in poignant fashion on the new single “Little China Boy,” on which the Filipino-American writes about being ethnically misidentified.

“‘Little China Boy’ was probably the easiest song to write on this record,” Seyer says. “The first thing I had was the opening riff, which plays on a stereotypical, oriental melody. But it didn’t feel right to just have that and to take it anywhere — I knew that the song wanted me to articulate my own Asian experience. And this might just be a nice sentiment, but maybe it was the easiest song to write because it’s the most authentic to my personal narrative as an Asian immigrant growing up in America.”

||| Stream: “Little China Boy”

||| Previously: “Miss My Baby,” “Heaven Only Knows”