It’s been four years since The Lumineers released their debut album full of lyrics that told stories of epic love stories and impossible heartbreaks, latching onto the young hearts and souls of the world’s misfits and romanticists. Now the folk-rock band is rising back up from the streets of Denver to tell more tales in the form of woeful, abstract but poetic, tunes. The group will be releasing their sophomore album, “Cleopatra” on April 8, 2016.

"It's a heavier record," frontman Wesley Schultz told Entertainment Weekly about Cleopatra. "A lot of the records that I grew up on were about being transitory; never being stuck. This lifestyle can make you crazy. But it suits a personality like me. I’m always on to the next.”

Since last February, the band has teased fans with three singles, “Ophelia,” “Cleopatra” and “Angela.”

With “Ophelia,” the airy, clapping and stomping rhythm effortlessly shines within the track, confirming the group’s musical style that fans fell in love with in their debut album.

"'Ophelia' is a vague reference to people falling in love with fame," Schultz told EW. "That spotlight can seem like an endless buffet, but in reality, you're just shiny, bright and new to people for a quick moment — and then you have the rest of your life to live. It’s about caring so much about the people around me, and wondering if we’re all going to be alright.”

Meanwhile, “Cleopatra” pulls us back from that shiny moment with a nice slap to the face of reality. The song follows a breakup one could only dream up: a young woman’s belief that she has reached the end of her life with the death of her father and a confusing, untimely marriage proposal that she later attributes as her greatest regret. The lyrics explain, “And I left the footprints, the mud-stained on the carpet/And it hardened like my heart did when you left town.”

These lyrics actually refer to the true story of a woman in that lives in the Republic of Georgia.

“My wife came across this woman while working on her college thesis who was the first female taxi driver in the Republic of Georgia,” Schultz told Reverb. “She fell in love with this guy at 16, and he proposed but she didn’t respond. When he left town, she refused to clean his boot prints off the floor.”

These are the raw emotions and tales The Lumineers set out to tell in their newest album. The lady in the Republic of Georgia ended up being the foundation of the album, and, of course, the main inspiration for the song “Cleopatra” and ultimately the entire record’s name.

“We live in a country fully of Instagram and pictures of life more beautiful than you ever thought it could be and she comes from the exact opposite perspective and she doesn’t ask for pity,” he told EW. “She has a willingness to confront life.”

The last released track, “Angela” acoustic nature allures you in the same way “Slow It Down” on their last album did. Then the empowering lyrics perfectly contradict the simplicity of the music, and the gradual build up of the track will make you want to escape the way the main protagonist “Angela” does.

“Cleopatra” is due for release April 8 via Dualtone.

Track Listing for "Cleopatra"

1. Sleep On The Floor
2. Ophelia
3. Cleopatra
4. Gun Song
5. Angela
6. In The Light
7. Gale Song
8. Long Way From Home
9. Sick In The Head
10. My Eyes
11. Patience