Bonnie “Prince” Billy has announced a new album titled We Are Together Again. The follow-up to last year’s The Purple Bird is slated for release on March 6 via Domino/No Quarter. It’s led by the new single ‘They Keep Trying to Find You’, which strikingly introduces the album’s themes of community and friendship as antidotes to loneliness. “Ignore everything that is frightening or strange/ Allow isolation to fully derange/ Becoming one with the darkness within,” Will Oldham sings. Check out its Abi Elliott-directed video below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Oldham began working on We Are Together Again before recording The Purple Bird in Nashville, revisiting them last spring. He laid them down at End of an Ear Studios in Louisville with his current tour mates Jacob Duncan (flute and saxophone) and Thomas Deakin (clarinet, whistle, baritone electric guitar, accordion, cornet), along with Ryder McNair, Chris Bush, Ned Oldham, and Erin Hill.
“This record was made closer to the Ohio River than any I’ve been involved with since 1993’s Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You,” Oldham explained in a statement. “Louisville’s current-and-past vital musical community is highlighted on every song. Catherine Irwin, who sang on the BPB release Ease Down the Road, is back here on ‘Hey Little’ and ‘Vietnam Sunshine’. Lacey Guthrie, Tory Fisher, and Katie Peabody, the three front women of the band Duchess, sing together on the opening and closing songs, parallel odes to the beast that is fear.”
We Are Together Again Cover Artwork:
We Are Together Again Tracklist:
1. Why is the Lion?
2. They Keep Trying To Find You
3. Strange Trouble
4. Life is Scary Horses
5. (Everybody’s Got a) Friend Named Joe
6. Vietnam Sunshine
7. Hey Little
8. Davey Dead
9. The Children are Sick
10. Bride of the Lion
