Flock of Dimes, the solo venture of Wye Oak multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner, has introduced a brand new album and a brief tour. The Life You Save is out October 10 by way of Sub Pop. Main the file is the brand new tune “Lengthy After Midnight,” which comes with an intimate music video directed by Spencer Kelly during which Wasner performs the tune on acoustic guitar sitting on a front room flooring whereas movers take away every merchandise round her one after the other. Watch it beneath.
“My earlier data, usually, have been a abstract of issues I had already been via— experiences I had noticed and mirrored upon, reporting again from some quantity of distance. However this file is totally different,” wrote Wasner. “It’s an try and report from within a course of that’s ongoing and unfinished, from which I’ll doubtless by no means totally emerge so long as I’m alive: my battle inside the cycles of dependancy and co-dependency.… In the long run, it’s my hope that this file exists as a testomony to the depth of my love for these I can’t save, and that it would present some consolation for anybody who continues to be studying easy methods to love and stay for themselves.”
The Life You Save was produced by Wasner and recorded in each Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Los Angeles. The 12-track LP follows Flock of Dimes sophomore studio album, Head of Roses, from 2021. As for Wasner’s work in Wye Oak, that band’s newest LP was 2023’s Each Day Just like the Final.
Flock of Dimes will embark on a headlining tour of the USA on the finish of this yr. Starting on November 6 in Philadelphia, Wasner plans to carry The Life You Save songs to life in choose cities, together with Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. That run ends on December 5 in Los Angeles. Discover her full record of tour dates down beneath.
Revisit Allison Hussey’s interview “Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner on Songwriting as Self-Acceptance.”
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The Life You Save:
01 Afraid
02 Preserve Me within the Darkish
03 Lengthy After Midnight
04 Defeat
05 Near Dwelling
06 The Enemy
07 Not But Free
08 Satisfaction
09 Theo
10 As an alternative of Calling
11 River in My Arms
12 I Suppose I’m God
Flock of Dimes:
11-06 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
11-07 New Haven, CT – House Ballroom
11-08 Brooklyn, NY – Nationwide Sawdust
11-09 Somerville, MA – The Rockwell
11-11 Washington, DC – The Atlantis
11-12 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
12-01 Seattle, WA – Barboza
12-02 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
12-04 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Cease
12-05 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
