J.E. Sunde now feels adored.

A new record is on the way from singer/songwriter J.E. Sunde called Now I Feel Adored, releasing on March 3. Iowa-based label Cartouche Records announced the forthcoming sophomore LP, a followup to his excellent 2014 album Shapes That Kiss The Lips Of God, on Tuesday.

Alongside Sunde, the new record features the core group of musicians that make up his touring trio – Andrew Thoreen (Har-Di-Har) and Shane Leonard (Kalispell, Field Report) – and a guest appearance by PHOX’s Monica Martin for a duet called “I Will Smile When I Think Of You.” The new album was primarily recorded at Honeytone Music, an independent recording space in an old Victorian house in Neenah, Wis.

“Fundamentally, I want to make incredible songs. And I think incredible songs – whether they have a symphony orchestra on them or it’s a cappella – work,” Sunde says at the beginning of a “making of” video for Now I Feel Adored. "I want to write music for lonely people ... I have this sense of putting words to that in a way that hopefully somebody will recognize themselves in these songs."

Watch the video, directed by Zach Johnston, below.

You can order different preorder packages for the new record – which include vinyl, CDs, lyric cards, photos, and even a handful of signed vinyl test pressings – at www.cartoucherecords.com.

JE Sunde, the making of "Now I Feel Adored"