Paul Spring’s new album Dumb and Free comes out on November 11th, 2025. It is a collection of songs based on characters met while political canvassing and socializing in Stearns County, Minnesota. Each song is from the perspective of a different person, most of whom have very different political views than Paul (who has been a Campaign Manager for Bed Stuy Democratic-Socialist Chi Ossé since 2020). The songwriting began from a place of judgement and morphed into a practice of empathy. Returning to Brooklyn for the winter and spring of 2024, Spring workshopped and arranged the songs with a live band over a 8 month residency at Sunnys Bar in Redhook. In June, he recorded with that same band - Nick Hakim on Piano, Jon Nellen (Elucid, Big Thief) on drums, Adam Brisbin (Cassandra Jenkins, Buck Meek) on electric guitar, and Kevin Copeland (Allegra Kreiger, Hannah Frances) on pedal steel.