Last month, Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore released a collaborative single called ‘Perpetual Adoration’. Turns out the celebrated composers have a whole album on the way: Tragic Magic will be released on January 16 via InFiné. Today, they’ve released a lustrous single from it, ‘Melted Moon’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Co-produced by Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Tragic Magic took shape in just nine days, a result of what Barwick calls “musical telepathy” between her and Lattimore. They recorded the album in Paris, leaving Los Angeles shortly after the 2025 wildfires, with access to the instrument collection of the Philharmonie de Paris’ Musée de la Musique. Lattimore chose three harps tracing the evolution of the instrument from 1728 to 1873, and Barwick chose several analog synthesizers, including the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5.
“We were so lucky to have access to this experience. There was a lot of reverence, working with people with such warmth and enthusiasm, bringing these instruments into a modern context, literally taken off the shelves of the museum,” Lattimore said. Barwick added, “We wanted to honor the past while making music that we feel is a true expression of ourselves. People ask, how was Paris? I’m like, it was perfect. It was like everything just aligned.”
Tragic Magic Cover Artwork:
Tragic Magic Tracklist:
1. Perpetual Adoration
2. The Four Sleeping Princesses
3. Rachel’s Song
4. Haze with no Haze
5. Temple of the Winds
6. Stardust
7. Melted Moon
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore 2025/2026 Tour Dates:
Fri Oct 17 – Tulsa, OK – LIT: A Concert by Candlelight
Fri Nov 7 – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who?
Mon Nov 10 – Istanbul, TR – Salon iSKV
Sat Feb 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Sid The Cat Auditorium
Sun Feb 15 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
Tue Feb 17 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile
Wed Feb 18 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Thu Mar 12 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
Sat Mar 14 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
Sun Mar 15 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
Tue Mar 17 – Toronto, ON – Great Hall
Wed Mar 18 – Montreal, QC – Gesu
Fri Mar 20 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
Tue Mar 24 – Washington, DC – Miracle Theater
Wed Mar 25 – Raleigh, NY – Rialto Theatre
Thu Mar 26 – Sun. March 29 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
Fr Apr 10 – Paris, FR – Philharmonie de Paris (Musée de la Musique)
Sat Apr 11 – London, UK – EartH Theatre
Sun Apr 12 – Copenhagen, DK – DR Koncerthuset, Studie 2
Mon Apr 13 – Stockholm, SE – Fasching
Tue Apr 14 – Helsinki, FI – G Live Lab
Thu Apr 16 – Oslo, NO – HIMMEL
Fri Apr 17 – Brussels, BE – Église Notre Dame de Laeken
Sat Apr 18 – Amsterdam, NL – BIMHUIS (Tickets on sale November)
Sun Apr 19 – Berlin, DE – Silent Green-Kuppelhalle
Tue Apr 21 – Düdingen, CH – Bad Bonn
