Amigo the Devil returns on December 19 with “New Kind of Lonely,” his first official new single since the release of Yours Until The War Is Over in February 2024.
A Message from Amigo The Devil:
“Recorded in a hotel conference room while on tour in Tasmania, “New Kind of Lonely” gives birth to a reality where a re-routed future doesn’t have to mean failure after all. Our new song comes out on December 19th, 2025 and instead of a typical press release, I’m just going to rant for a bit as if we were friends catching up, because we kind of are.
Although still navigating the tragic loss of my home, my life…the cruelty of watching a lifetime of collecting and work burn itself to rubble, this song isn’t about that. It isn’t singular or momentary. When people ask for an explanation of what a song means or the process it was written through I often feel stuck. Do I make up this otherworldly, elaborate story of the greater gods and underworld energies fighting their way into my brain to create these 3 minutes in time? Were the lyrics hand delivered by a dying breed of beetle on an old world scroll? Do I force myself to feel so self aggrandized that it was all the spark of a genius and the brutal labor of wading in torment. Oh the fucking burden I carry blah blah blah. No…I just wrote it. That’s it. It happened to be the words that came to mind when I heard the melody in my head. That’s as simple as it usually is and hopefully as beautifully natural as it will ever be. The idea of glamorizing song writing into some hard labor or philosophic masterpiece, in my opinion, just takes away from the beauty of what songs are. They just are. Just like I am, and you are…and things are. Then they go, often without notice. That’s why it’s so important for me that people take songs for what they need them to be in that moment. Not everyone will have the same kind of lonely and expressing what mine was in the moment I wrote this song takes it away from everyone else’s purpose with it. These songs aren’t mine. The same way anyone else doing any other craft or trade will know. You show up, you do the work and then you leave it behind for others to enjoy. No one asks an electrician what inspired him to wire a house the way he did (I’m sure someone does but shut the fuck up, you get it, thank you). Whether you find yourself alone in a new space for the first time without your person by you. Whether you’re learning a new reality after leaving behind an addiction or circumstance…maybe said fuck this career and are starting over or you simply decided you don’t want to be who you have been and the terror crawls through your skin every time you reach out for comfort just to find nothing on the other end, the only place we find hope is in the perspective. Yes, it’s terrifying and yes it’s new. Whether it falls within the bounds of your planned life or is completely unfamiliar it is a chance to rebuild with all the knowledge you wish you had the first go around.
Out on the Australian tour a gentleman who came to multiple shows was flying home the same time we were so we had a small chat. This is days after recording this song with Talley. Of all the wonderful and brilliant things he said through our short chat in a tiny Tasmanian airport terminal, one sentiment stood out the most. Although specific in that moment to the fire and hope for reconstruction, I’ve applied it to everything else that would otherwise feel like failure or hardship in my life. He said “…don’t forget, you’re not starting from zero. You’re starting from experience.”
That’s the new kind of lonely that I’m hoping will bring a better tomorrow.
I hope you enjoy it and take whatever you need from it, if anything.
If not, I hope the days keep steady and the path is sturdy for you.
Don’t wait to enjoy anything in your life. You never know when the universe will take it back.
I’m grateful to you all.”
In the vast realm of modern folk and alternative rock, Amigo The Devil is an artist who channels a voice of unsettling beauty and raw truth. Splicing alarming honesty with personal realizations, his narratives carry weight, wisdom and wit. With a brilliant mind, full soul and a penchant for the obscure, Amigo the Devil’s songwriting harkens back to a more brutal state of songwriting, influenced by the honesty of Leonard Cohen, the creativity of Tom Waits and the ruthlessness of Chavela Vargas. Rather than imitate, he identifies with their authentic disregard of consequences when it comes to songwriting and releasing music. Amigo the Devil is not polished or clean – he’s all heart, with reckless abandon, choosing to embrace one’s flaws instead of trying to change them.
The son of a Greek father and Spanish mother, Amigo the Devil – otherwise known as Danny Kiranos – is a first-generation American from South Florida. He came of age in downtown Miami during the mid-1980s and spent significant portions of his earlier career embracing an almost nomadic lifestyle, absorbing tales from the underworld and penning songs about other wandering or lost souls. These stories found their way into his lyrics and gained a steady fellowship of fans along the way. His first full-length album, Volume 1, gave birth to ballads including “Hell and You,” “I Hope Your Husband Dies” and “One Kind of People,” followed by 2018’s Everything is Fine, which brought forth songs like “Hungover in Jonestown” and “Cocaine and Abel.”
This evolution came fully into focus with Born Against (2021), released under his independent label Liars Club Records, which garnered critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, Consequence, No Depression and American Songwriter, which described Amigo the Devil as “an artist who gives full reign to intrigue and intellect in equal measure.” The next chapter continued with the February 2024 release of Yours Until the War is Over, a songwriter’s record that proves this whole Amigo the Devil thing isn’t some true crime niche. Similar to Waits and Cohen, Amigo the Devil embodies the truest form of an artist, letting the music speak for itself while reminding listeners of the power of storytelling and music’s role in narrating human emotion.
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