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When Bruce Hornsby announced his new album Indigo Park<\/em>, part of the draw<\/a> was collaborations with Bonnie Raitt, Ezra Koenig, Blake Mills, and the late Bob Weir. He’s since shared “Ecstatic<\/a>,” his reunion with Raitt. Now that the album is out, we can hear the rest.<\/p>\n Koenig, the Vampire Weekend frontman, guests on “Memory Palace,” a glittering pop-rock track early in the album featuring a reference to the Fibonacci sequence and the charming lyric “Is that what I look like? Ha ha.” The song heavily relies on a 12-string Rickenbacker guitar rather than Hornsby’s signature instrument, the piano. Koenig and Hornsby premiered it last weekend on Time Crisis<\/a><\/em>, Koenig’s Apple Music radio show, and today it has a music video.<\/p>\n Mills and Weir, whose band the Grateful Dead counted Hornsby as a longtime collaborator, pop up late in the tracklist on “Might As Well Be Me, Florinda,” a surrealist blues-rock tune that begins with the line “You can’t knock out the same tooth twice.” Hornsby wrote it with the late Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and it first appeared as a solo piano performance<\/a> on his 2014 album Solo Concerts. Here, it’s presented as a slow shuffle that reminds me as much of Cate Le Bon’s art-pop as the Dead’s saucy roots rock.<\/p>\n Both of these songs rule, and Hornsby recorded behind-the-scenes videos about each one. Check out all of that below, along with a stream of the whole album.<\/p>\n