Collected over time.
Payne Co. is the new 13-track album from Backward Collective. Most of it was made in 2026, but some of it had been waiting a lot longer. Ideas for many of the lyrics started in notebooks from 2004 and 2005, then spent the better part of twenty years in an attic before being pulled back out and put to work.
Thirteen tracks.
Open a title for the recording note, personnel and a short pre-release excerpt. Full album listening will point to Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube at release.
The players.
Adam Headrick, Jason Presley, Michael Tuminello and John McCann played together in Prankstar in the early 2000s. Payne Co. puts the four of them back on the same record, with Ryan Webber, Brad Hardy, Brooke Blizzard, Jason Taylor and John Dawson joining in.
The package.
The album package, track list and printed credits.
Listen.
“LEB2PHI,” the final single before Payne Co., is out now. The full album arrives October 2. Explore the previews and liner notes while you’re here.
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