Justin Timberlake has just announced the release of his fourth full-length record. Titled &quot;Man of the Woods&quot;, it&#39;s scheduled to drop on February 2nd, and will be preceded by a new, so-far untitled single this Friday.

His return was announced earlier today through a one-minute short film Justin posted on his Twitter. The film shows the 36-year-old singer heading back to the place he was raised: Memphis, Tennessee. In the cowboy-style clip, we see JT swimming in creeks, standing in&nbsp;snowy forests, wrangling horses, and running through cornfields.&nbsp;

&quot;This album is really inspired by my son, my wife, my family, but more so than any other album I&#39;ve ever written, where I&#39;m from &ndash; and it&#39;s personal,&quot; he says in the film&#39;s monologue. As tasters of his new songs play, we hear his wife Jessica Biel comment on how his new stuff &quot;feels like mountains; trees; campfires; like the Wild West, but now.&quot;

It suggests that Justin might be toying with a country-style switch up, much like a few&nbsp;of his pop peers did for their latest records. In 2016, Lady Gaga bared all on&nbsp;&quot;Joanne&quot; and Miley came of age (again) on &quot;Younger Now&quot; last Autumn, both acting as surprising, guitar-led records that were far detached from their older sounds. Could Justin be the new boy in the country pack?

It&#39;s his first album since 2013&#39;s two-part Grammy-nominated &quot;The 20/20 Experience&quot;, which spawned the singles Mirrors and the Jay Z collaboration Suit &amp; Tie.&nbsp;Having been spared of any backlash following his supporting role in Woody Allen&#39;s &quot;Wonder Wheel&quot; &ndash; and the radio monotony of Can&#39;t Stop The Feeling filed far back in our brains &ndash; could JT really make his mark as a pop artist with purpose in 2017?&nbsp;

Man of the Woods

Justin Timberlake is Back – and He's Returned to His Roots

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