Gary Lightbody side-project ready to roll

Gary Lightbody has announced details of The Place We Ran From, the debut and possibly only album from his Tired Pony alt. counry side-project, which is out here on July 9.
Recorded during a crazed few weeks at the start of the year in Portland’s Type Foundry studio, the Reindeer Section-style line-up includes Peter Buck, his R.E.M. associate Scott McCaughey, Iain Archer, Troy Stewart, Belle & Sebastian’s Richard Colburn and Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee. Also pitching in at different times were M. Ward and his She & Him partner Zooey Deschanel and Editors’ Tom Smith.
The track-listing is ‘Northwestern Skies’, ‘Get On The Road’, ‘Point Me At Lost Islands’, ‘Held In The Arms Of Your Words’, ‘That Silver Necklace’, ‘I Am A Landslide’, ‘The Deepest Ocean There Is’, ‘The Good Book’, ‘Pieces’ and lead single ‘Dead American Writers’.
Judging by the sneak preview below, it sounds like far more than a rock star-ly indulgence.