Julia Sanders has announced a new album, Dark Matter. The Asheville-based artist will release her third album on May 16, and the profoundly candid title track, out today, features Esther Rose. Check it out below.
Dark Matter was produced by John James Tourville (The Deslondes). “The album takes on really difficult questions,” Sanders explained in a press release. “But the point isn’t to answer them. It’s to surrender. To the unknown. To the invisible magic that—hey, turns out—makes up most of our world.”
Sanders met Esther Rose while they were both living in New Orleans. “This song became a way to write about the unknowns we live with every day and the ways in which we try so hard to create meaning,” Sanders said. “It begins with a line about the seemingly endless instinct to wonder why, but the older I get, the more I resonate with the later verse: ‘The only thing to master/ Live in question need no answer.'”
“One of my favorite things in this world is singing with Esther,” she added. “I love the way she builds harmony and the unique way our voices click together. Her bright notes in the chorus mixed with that little riff from Steve’s guitar makes me think of a shooting star, or a lightspeed jump in space.”
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Dark Matter Tracklist:
1. Dark Matter
2. Queen Of Swords
3. Unsatifiable
4. Drive This Town
5. Star Stickers
6. The Way I’m Broken
7. Strawberry Moon
8. Someone I Used To Be
9. Body
10. Dearer Than Dear
11. When The Veil Thins
