Patrick Droney and Kelsey Ballerini Release “Math Of Us.” New Album ‘Made You Look’ Out Now

Patrick Droney’s stunning new studio album Made You Look is out now via Warner Records. Made You Look features 12 brutally honest and resonant tracks written and produced by Droney, alongside an eclectic cast of esteemed collaborators. Recorded between New York and Nashville, the album includes “Math of Us,” the gorgeous duet with 6-time GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini. He shared the official music video for “Math of Us” today

The video, Droney’s directorial debut, was shot in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and features both friends, family and local couples in different life phases, embodying the themes of perspective and time explored in the song and the album as a whole. 

Goldmine Magazine praising Made You Look said, “Patrick Droney has sought not just a fanbas
e for his music but to define a space where urban grit and Southern comfort co-exist.”  Describing it as “one of 2026’s defining recordings” they extoll how it “identifies pop’s future” and “uses its lyrics and music to explore how people understand the changing definitions of reality, existence and the universe.” 

This chapter has taught me that one of the most important things we can do is pay attention to the life we’re actually living. Meaning doesn’t always arrive in the big moments. Most of the time, it accumulates throughout ordinary days, in routines and details we know so well that we stop seeing them. It’s in the way we love each other, the things we don’t say, and the people we can miss even when they’re sitting right beside us.

Making this record while becoming a father gave me a way to create a ledger of this attention. It brought me back to the present and helped me see that so much of what I was seeking was staring right back at me. I just had to look.

Droney also debuted the album’s first single “Back In My Body” with a joyful and uplifting performance on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, giving fans a taste of what to expect on his first new album in three years.

The singer, songwriter and producer also recently marked another milestone making his Opry Debut in the esteemed Nashville institution earlier this month, performing his latest release “Growing A Garden” and his fan favorite “High Hope.” He’ll return to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on his North American tour which kicks off October 14 in Los Angeles.

Patrick Droney is known for his cinematic and vulnerable songwriting with Made You Look elevating that artistry to the next level. Listeners are invited to open their eyes to the myriad of ‘little things’ that we miss in everyday life: the epiphanies that so often emerge in the seemingly mundane.

Droney‘s third full-length project comes after three defining years away — a meaningful pause in a career that spans three acclaimed records (2018’s self-titled EP, 2021’s State of the Heart, and 2023’s Subtitlesfor Feelings), appearances on late night TV (Seth Meyers, Colbert), and hundreds of millions of streams.  In the interval between projects, his life changed in more ways than one — above all, he became a father and arrived somewhere no familiar room could prepare him for.

Made You Look is both an instruction and an admission at once — a record about paying attention in an era that forces us to always be somewhere else. In a culture built for speed, Droney slowed down, and the music is braver for it, both sonically and emotionally. The album boasts an impressive list of collaborations, including a stunning feature from Kelsea Ballerini (“Math of Us”) and a co-write with Stephen Wilson, Jr. (“Cigarette Break”) — plus key contributions from Konrad Snyder (Kacey Musgraves, Noah Kahan), mixing engineer Jonathan Low (Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams), drummer Bryan Devendorf (The National), string arranger Davide Rossi (Coldplay, Alicia Keys, The Verve), and more. Droney will be touring the album heavily, folding Made You Look into his growing songbook. He’s already played a sold-out three-city run through Nashville, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn this year and a fall tour ahead will see him take on storied rooms like the Ryman Auditorium, Brooklyn Steel, and the Belasco Theatre.