"Back Home" is the lead single off Grammer's sophomore album, Magazines or Novels, out Aug. 5. The follow-up to his 2011 self-titled debut, this time around Grammer took inspiration from artists like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Drake and Coldplay with their honest lyrics. While he likens his debut to a first meeting, Grammer said Magazines or Novels is more like a best friend that he shows his scars and wounds to.

"What I was finding was the music that I was listening to, people were sharing of themselves in a deeper way. A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars and for some reason I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me,'" Grammer explained.

"That was the biggest shift. I'm going to try to go more after humanity and more after honesty and hopefully people will feel that and it will pull them in the way I've been pulled into other artists. It was a little scary to go after exactly what I wanted sonically because I knew it was such a departure but I love it. I think people will follow you if it's what you love."

Where Grammer's debut was mainly written on piano and guitar for a street crowd where he performed in Santa Monica, Calif., Magazines or Novels was written while on tour with acts like Train who were playing in front of big crowds. And, performing a song for arena audiences is very different than for those passing by on the street.

"How do you mirror your life, even the dark interesting parts, and keep people bobbing their heads?" he asked rhetorically. "I think I did it. I hope."