Nandi Rose has previewed her upcoming Half Waif album See You at the Maypole with a new song called ‘The Museum’. It arrives on the heels of lead single ‘Figurine’. Check it out below.
“There’s a warehouse at the top of Main Street in my tiny town that’s being turned into a museum for Shaker art,” Rose explained in a statement. “It’s just down the road from my house, so I pass by it all the time. When I wrote ‘The Museum’, I was thinking about how sort of beautifully delusional it is to create a museum at a time when the world is reaching the apex of climate crisis. This idea of preserving pieces of furniture in a pristine, white-walled space when outside, everything is collapsing.”
“I’d also read a headline about how people were vacationing in Iceland at an active volcano, and that seemed to hold the same feeling for me as the museum-under-construction,” she continued. “Tourism at the brink of apocalypse. Meanwhile, my husband and I were talking about building a family, building a future, and I was grappling with the responsibility of what it means to bring a child into this kind of world — where people pose for selfies while the earth explodes.”
See You at the Maypole, the follow-up to 2021’s Mythopoetics, arrives on October 4 via ANTI-.
