Half Waif, the project of Nandi Rose, has announced a new album titled See You at the Maypole. The follow-up to 2021’s Mythopoetics lands on October 4 via ANTI-. It’s led by the single ‘Figurine’, which comes paired with a video directed by Derrick Belcham and shot at Rose’s upstate New York home, with choreography by Kora Radella. Check it out below and scroll down for the album artwork (by Annika Tucksmith) and tracklist.
‘Figurine’, like much of See You at the Maypole, was written in the wake of a miscarriage. “Not everyone will go through a miscarriage, but this is a song about how to continue on after losing something precious, how to find the light on your face again,” Rose explained. She added, “I was literally carrying death inside me, and then my body was frozen.… This wasn’t just my story, I wanted to say. It was every story of loss – the loss of a life, the loss of a dream, the loss of trust and hope and faith. A story of finding a way back again.”
Rose worked on the new LP, which also follows 2024’s Ephemeral Being EP, with longtime collaborator Zubin Hensler. Other contributors include percussionists Jason Burger and Zack Levine, guitarist Josh Marre, violinists Hannah Epperson and Elena Moon Park, clarinetist Kristina Teuschler, trombonist Willem de Koch, harpist Rebecca El-Saleh, and upright bassist Spencer Zahn.
See You at the Maypole Cover Artwork:
See You at the Maypole Tracklist:
1. Fog Winter Balsam Jade
2. Collect Color
3. I-90
4. Figurine
5. Heartwood
6. Big Dipper
7. Shirtsleeves
8. Sunset Hunting
9. Dust
10. Slow Music
11. Ephemeral Being
12. Violetlight
13. Velvet Coil
14. The Museum
15. King of Tides
16. Mother Tongue
17. March Grass
