Widowspeak have announced Roses, their first album in four years. Following The Jacket, the band’s seventh LP lands on June 5 via Captured Tracks. Listen to the jangly lead single ‘If You Change’ below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Opening up about ‘If You Change’, vocalist Molly Hamilton says she “thought about the fear of change, and when things (situations, objects) feel stuck in time because of a fear of ruining them. You always hear ‘mint condition’ as though it is as an asset, but it also means that thing hasn’t been used, lived with, loved. It never gets to fulfill its destiny.”
“Incidentally one of my favorite childhood books is The Velveteen Rabbit and growing up we had this VHS copy of Meryl Streep reading it over Ken Burns-esque slow-panned illustrations,” Hamilton shared of the accompanying video. “It’s sort of burned into my mind. Even now, I can hear her voice saying ‘I am real!’ My sister ended up getting me a copy of it on vinyl, which is incredible. Maybe I’ve also been thinking about it more now because we have a board book version we read to the baby. But, the point of the story is that only through being loved can something become ‘real’… and that’s sort of how the video came to be what it is.”
The duo of Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas is now a married couple. They recorded the new album at the Old Carpet Factory on the Greek island Hydra, which you can read a bit about in our recent interview with Westerman. It was mixed by Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun Studios and mastered by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering.
Roses Cover Artwork:
Roses Tracklist:
1. The Hook
2. No Driver
3. Roses
4. If You Change
5. Wondering
6. Angel Number
7. Soft Cover
8. Heaven is Waiting
9. Actor
10. Hourglass
