Walk Around the Moon

Work started during the COVID-19 pandemic, with recording sessions taking place with limited band members at a time at the band's Haunted Hollow Studio in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Seven of the 12 tracks on Walk Around the Moon were played live prior to the official album announcement on January 24, 2023. "Break Free" has been played going back to 2006,[1] from a studio session with Mark Batson.[2] "Singing from the Windows" debuted in Dave Matthews' first performance of the pandemic, a "Pay It Forward" live charity stream sponsored by Verizon Wireless, on March 26, 2020.[3] "The Ocean and the Butterfly" debuted on a charity livestream in December 2020.[4] "Walk Around the Moon",[5] "The Only Thing",[6] and "Madman's Eyes"[7] were first played live during the band's 2021 tour. "Something to Tell My Baby" made its debut during Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds' 2022 Mexico three-night run.[8]

After the album's announcement, all but one remaining song was played live prior to the album's release. "Monsters" was played twice during Dave and Tim's 2023 Mexico run. At the start of the band's 2023 Summer Tour in Mexico, the band debuted "Looking for a Vein", "It Could Happen", and "All You Wanted Was Tomorrow". On May 19, the album's release date, the band rounded out the live debuts of the album's songs with "After Everything".

Between the album's announcement and release, the title of "All You Ever Wanted Was Tomorrow" was changed to "All You Wanted Was Tomorrow".

At 42 minutes and 42 seconds long, Walk Around the Moon is the band's shortest album to date.

Walk Around the Moon debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200, the first album of theirs not to debut at number one since 1996's Crash while selling 44,000 album-equivalent units in the first week, of which 40,000 were pure album sales. It is Dave Matthews Band's 14th US top-10 album.[9]

Dave Matthews Band

• Carter Beauford – drums (1–2, 4–5, 7–11), background vocals (1–2, 7–9), cabasa (1), tambourine (9)
• Jeff Coffin – tenor and baritone saxophone (1–2, 7–10), tárogató (2), soprano saxophone (4)
• Stefan Lessard – bass (1–2, 5, 7–10), Moog Taurus pedals (2), upright bass (4)
• Dave Matthews – vocals, acoustic guitar (2–6, 8–9, 11–12), electric guitar (1–3, 5, 7, 9), background vocals (1–2, 5, 7, 9, 11), Wurlitzer (1, 3, 5), synthesizer (1, 3), piano (1, 5), Mellotron and nylon string guitar (1), tambourine and electric sitar (2), bass and loops (3), organ (6), baritone guitar (10)
• Tim Reynolds – electric guitar (1–2, 4–5, 7–11), 12-string acoustic guitar and backwards guitar (2), nylon string guitar (5), dobro (8), acoustic guitar (9)
• Rashawn Ross – trumpet (1–2, 4, 7–10), bass trumpet and background vocals (1–2, 7–9), flugelhorn (1, 5, 9)
• Buddy Strong – Hammond B3 organ (1–2, 5, 7–10), background vocals (1–2, 7–9), piano (1, 5, 8), Wurlitzer (2, 4, 7, 9), Moog One (5, 7, 9), vocals (7), Rhodes (8), clavinet (9)

Additional musicians

Technical personnel