Keaton Henson has announced a new album called Parader, which will be released November 21 via Play It Again Sam. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the quietly explosive new single ‘Insomnia’, alongside an animated stop motion video made by Henson himself. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Marking Henson’s ninth studio album, Parader follows 2024’s Somnambulant Cycles. “I was nervous about being too loud, but then it sort of just came out,” Henson said of the new LP. “It’s not me pretending to be anything I’m not. It’s maybe just me accepting that part of me is this. It’s louder and it has those bigger, louder, rasher sounds, but not from a performative point of view. Maybe I’m accepting that that is a part of me as well.”
He added: “There are these disjointed snapshots, memories across time popping up amongst this collection of thoughts about what it feels like to be this age and a musician.” Ratboys’ Julia Steiner features on the earlier single ‘Lazy Magician’.
Parader Cover Artwork:
Parader Tracklist:
1. Don’t I Just
2. Insomnia
3. Lazy Magician [feat. Julia Steiner]
4. Past It
5. Conversation Coach
6. Furl [feat. Danielle Fricke]
7. Loose Ends
8. Operator
9. Tell Me So
10. Tourniquet
11. Day In New York
12. Performer
