Pete Yorn's BACK AND FOURTH in Stores Now!

Exclusive iTunes Pre-Sale Sold 11,672 Digital Copies in First Week

Headlining Tour Kicks Off July 9, in San Diego, CA

LOS ANGELES, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Pete Yorn is back, and critics can't get
enough of BACK AND FOURTH.

Released Tuesday, June 23, BACK AND FOURTH is Yorn's fourth Columbia Records
release, and comes on the heels of an extensive spring tour in support of
Coldplay. With a headlining tour scheduled to kick off July 9, critics are
already raving about the new release. "Yorn has found his voice on this beauty
of a record," hails Rolling Stone, who gave the album a 3.5-star review in
their issue on-sale this week. The album is "on course as one of the best
albums of 2009," agrees The Huffington Post, while People Magazine named the
album a Critic's Choice, calling it "perfect music for the morning after." USA
Today gave BACK AND FOURTH a 3-star review, calling "their stories lovely and
ephemeral and bittersweet like a summertime romance."

If you don't trust the critics, his fans have also spoken.

In an exclusive iTunes pre-sale, BACK AND FOURTH sold 11,672 digital copies,
driving the album to Top 10 status (reached No. 4 on iTunes Album Chart), and
to No. 1 on the store's alternative charts -- all before its official release.
The album's first single, "Don't Wanna Cry," is in the Top 10 overall at
Triple A radio, and momentum is only building, as VH1 began spinning the new
video this week.

Yorn celebrated Tuesday's release with a Monday night appearance on "The
Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien," and will be playing an intimate club show at
The Roxy Theater, in Hollywood, CA, tonight, June 24. Yorn returns to the road
as a headliner July 9 for a two-month run highlighted by multiple nights in
New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis and Los Angeles (go to www.peteyorn.com
for a complete list of tour dates).

Recorded in Omaha, NE, with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley),
Yorn says the album was inspired by an escape from his everyday routine, and
the change of pace between hometown Los Angeles and more rural Nebraska. "I
think I found a different kind of inspiration there that helped carry the
record home," he says.

More critical praise for BACK AND FOURTH:
"Proves mixed feelings can be as haunting as concrete ones." (B+)
-Entertainment Weekly

"The darkest, deepest songs of his career."
-Paste

"The most introspective disc of Yorn's career."
-Performing Songwriter

Visit Pete Yorn online at :
www.peteyorn.com
www.facebook.com/peteyorn
www.twitter.com/peteyorn
www.myspace.com/peteyorn

SOURCE Columbia Records

Cat De Felice of Columbia Records, +1-310-272-2702,
cat.defelice@sonymusic.com