Sima Cunningham has announced a new album, High Roller, which is due August 30 via Ruination Records. To mark the announcement, Cunningham has shared the single ‘Nothing’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Speaking about the track, Cunningham said: “I only met my uncle a handful of times. To my family he was Johnny Boy. He was born with severe cerebral palsy and lived most of his life in a care facility away from his family. He was never able to use his voice but he loved music— the Beatles in particular. He had an illustration of them on the wall of his room. When he was passing away a few years ago I thought a lot about what might be going on inside of his head— did he have ideas about how he wanted to live his life? Was he singing or reciting poetry to himself? Or something else, that was beyond my perception? When we visited him, and when our grandmother would visit her eldest son, it was always about singing with him and connecting to him that way. When I play ’Nothing’ I feel like I’m jumping between observing him from the outside and leaping into his head— swimming through his mental pictures and sensations.”
Collaborators on the new LP include multi-instrumentalist Dorian Gehring, Cunningham’s brother Liam Kazar on bass, Macie Stewart, Spencer Tweedy, Elizabeth Moen, Andrew Sa, Charles Rumback, Jack Henry, and Twin Peaks’ Clay Frankel.
Back in May, Cunningham and her bandmate Macie Stewart released their first album under the name Finom, Not God.
High Roller Cover Artwork:
High Roller Tracklist:
1. Nothing
2. High Roller
3. Your Bones
4. Give Up
5. For Liam
6. You Have It All
7. Hyenas
8. Both Ways
9. Abilene
10. Adonai
