Daniel Martin Moore Keeps the Hope Alive On Reflective 'Never Look Away': Exclusive

"Generally, I think we're in a state of loss in the world right now," Moore explains. "I experience this state of climate change we're in as a profound loss, like a diversity loss of some of our profound species. The health of our rivers and our air is in constant decline. There's an acute sadness that hangs over all of those bigger concepts. So some of that loss is kind of a general thing, and some of it is specific."

Musically, Moore sees Never Look Away as an excuse to work with Kauffman, who's in the band Floating Away. "He's a good buddy," says Moore. "We never had played music together, but we've always been in a mutual orbit. As I started to stack up some songs I realized maybe now is the time."

The two recorded at Kauffman's home studio in Black Mountain, N.C. as well as at Moore's in Louisville.

"I wanted to make a record that was a little looser -- maybe not in execution but in conception -- than some of the albums I’ve made in the past," explains Moore, who will be touring this fall and into next year. "That's not to say we didn’t care about the performances, but I wanted to try to have more fun making this record and not be so worried about the precision of the endeavor. Seth made that real easy; He's just a wonderful musician and a proponent of first takes. So we just built the record from that kind of philosophical place, and it was a really fun process."

Listen to "Never Look Away" below.