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 track “Long After Midnight,” which comes with an intimate music video directed by Spencer Kelly through which Wasner performs the track on acoustic guitar sitting on a front room ground whereas movers take away every merchandise round her one after the other. Watch it beneath.
“My earlier data, typically, have been a abstract of issues I had already been by means of— 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 possible by no means totally emerge so long as I’m alive: my wrestle throughout the cycles of habit 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 not save, and that it’d present some consolation for anybody who continues to be studying easy methods to love and reside 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 Every Day Like the Last.
Flock of Dimes will embark on a headlining tour of the USA on the finish of this 12 months. Starting on November 6 in Philadelphia, Wasner plans to convey 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 Pleasure
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 – Area 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
