Flock of Dimes, the solo mission of Wye Oak multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner, has introduced a brand new album and a brief tour. The Life You Save is out October 10 by way of Sub Pop. Main the document is the brand new track “Lengthy After Midnight,” which comes with an intimate music video directed by Spencer Kelly by which Wasner performs the track on acoustic guitar sitting on a lounge ground whereas movers take away every merchandise round her one after the other. Watch it under.
“My earlier data, usually, have been a abstract of issues I had already been by way of— experiences I had noticed and mirrored upon, reporting again from some quantity of distance. However this document is completely different,” wrote Wasner. “It’s an try and report from within a course of that’s ongoing and unfinished, from which I’ll seemingly by no means absolutely emerge so long as I’m alive: my wrestle inside the cycles of habit and co-dependency.… In the long run, it’s my hope that this document exists as a testomony to the depth of my love for these I can not save, and that it’d present some consolation for anybody who remains to be studying how one can love and reside for themselves.”
The Life You Save was produced by Wasner and recorded in each Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Los Angeles. The 12-track LP follows Flock of Dimes sophomore studio album, Head of Roses, from 2021. As for Wasner’s work in Wye Oak, that band’s newest LP was 2023’s Each Day Just like the Final.
Flock of Dimes will embark on a headlining tour of the US on the finish of this yr. Starting on November 6 in Philadelphia, Wasner plans to deliver The Life You Save songs to life in choose cities, together with Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. That run ends on December 5 in Los Angeles. Discover her full checklist of tour dates down under.
Revisit Allison Hussey’s interview “Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner on Songwriting as Self-Acceptance.”
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Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save
The Life You Save:
01 Afraid
02 Maintain Me within the Darkish
03 Lengthy After Midnight
04 Defeat
05 Near House
06 The Enemy
07 Not But Free
08 Satisfaction
09 Theo
10 As a substitute of Calling
11 River in My Arms
12 I Assume I’m God
Flock of Dimes:
11-06 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
11-07 New Haven, CT – Area Ballroom
11-08 Brooklyn, NY – Nationwide Sawdust
11-09 Somerville, MA – The Rockwell
11-11 Washington, DC – The Atlantis
11-12 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
12-01 Seattle, Wa – Barboza
12-02 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
12-04 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Cease
12-05 Los Angeles, Ca – Zebulon
Flock of Dimes: US Tour 2025
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