Keith Urban just dropped a new song and visualizer! The song, “Tumbleweed,” is from his upcoming new album, The Speed of Now, Part 1, out on September 18. The fast-paced song, which also shows Keith’s stunning guitar skills, was written by James McNair, Jaren Johnston and Neil Mason.

The Speed of Now Part 1 includes collaborations with several artists, including Eric Church on “We Were,” BRELAND and Nile Rodgers on “Out the Cage,” and Pink on “One Too Many.” It’s a diverse 16-song project, whose title changed meaning after Keith was forced to be off the road, due to COVID-19.

“I guess the title of the album has been the most asked question I’ve gotten, and that’s one of those crazy art-imitating-life, life-imitating-art moments,” Keith shared with Variety. “The title The Speed of Now came to me last year for multitudes of reasons, mostly just because I felt like everything was just careening almost out of control. Everywhere I went, it seemed like people were going faster, everything was moving faster, life was going faster. So it was a bit of a commentary about the absurdity of where I felt like we were at.

“Fast forward to March and April of this year, where everything just ground to a halt,” he continued. “I was shell-shocked. And I’d said to a couple of friends of mine, ‘I’m going to have to come up with a different album title.’ And they said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Well, this made sense last year.’ They said, ‘Yeah, but the speed of now is very different to what it was last year.’ So I think people will have a different relationship with that title, which took on a whole new meaning.”

Keith has been working on music since he’s been at home, although he admits at first he felt stuck with so much time on his hands.

“The truth is, I was quite artistically paralyzed for the first part of lockdown,” Keith conceded. “I unapologetically state that because I had been in the midst of not only playing gigs in Vegas and doing a bit of touring, but going down to studios here in Nashville and recording and having cameras and musicians floating around, and I’m engaged with people everywhere, and all of a sudden that stops. And I’m like, what the hell?

“There’s no touring,” he continued. “There’s no going to other studios. There’s no collaborating with people. And I didn’t know what to do, honestly. I wasn’t very excited to sit in front of my laptop with an acoustic guitar and keep playing a bunch of songs. That just didn’t interest me. After you do it once, you’re like, “Okay. There’s 4 million people doing this on YouTube every day. What are we doing here?” And I just didn’t want to do anything for a good few weeks.”

Pre-order The Speed of Now Part 1 by visiting Keith’s website.