Kansas Anymore by Role Model

Kansas Anymore, the second album from Tucker Pillsbury's Role Model, arrived in July 2024 on Interscope and Polydor, and its title nods to Dorothy's line on landing in Oz. Consider it fair warning: the glossy alt-pop of 2022's Rx gives way to indie-folk and country shading, with Noah Conrad steering as executive producer and Lizzy McAlpine dropping in on "So Far Gone". Four singles, from "Oh, Gemini" to "Scumbag", paved the road.

The real turn came with the deluxe edition, The Longest Goodbye, in February 2025. Among its four new songs was "Sally, When the Wine Runs Out", a country-tinged number that caught fire on social media and gave him his first entry on the Billboard charts. Laufey later joined him for an acoustic take on "The Longest Goodbye". He carried the songs on the road as an opener for Gracie Abrams at select stops, then set out on the No Place Like Tour.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.