Haley Bonar announces new album, single and UK tour
HALEY BONAR ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND SHARES LEAD SINGLE “I CAN CHANGE”
IMPOSSIBLE DREAM RELEASED 5TH AUGUST ON MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES
BONAR CONFIRMS UK HEADLINE SHOWS AND FIELD MUSIC SUPPORT SLOTS FOR OCTOBER
Haley Bonar has announced a new album Impossible Dream, to be released through Memphis Industries on 5th August. Lead single “I Can Change” has just been made available to stream online.
Imbued with fragility and strength in equal measure, “I Can Change” touches on, according to Bonar, “addiction, sexuality and coming to terms with the true form of the self by questioning the existence of one’s shame.”
Haley Bonar has also announced that she will be touring with her band in October. As well as headline shows, she’ll be supporting Field Music in Gateshead and Manchester. See below for full details.
Recorded on analogue tape at Pachyderm Studios, Minnesota and produced by Bonar and Jacob Hansen, Impossible Dream is the follow-up to 2014’sLast War, which enjoyed widespread critical acclaim and featured in Rough Trade, NPR and Village Voice’s ‘Albums of the Year’ lists.
Haley Bonar says of Impossible Dream:
“Everybody wants a story. Something to sell. I’m here to tell you that there isn’t one with this album, at least in the traditional sense, but ten. I could sit here and tell you that some of the songs are about growing up in the Black Hills. Some of the songs are about my parents. Some of the songs are about homosexuality. Some of the songs are about loss of youth, teenage parenthood, the lines of social disorder for women, or the terror of jealousy and suspicion. But what I write is borne of my own set of memories and ideas, and once they are released into the world, they do not belong to me anymore.”
Haley Bonar was first discovered by Low’s Alan Sparhawk who spotted her at a local club in Duluth, Minnesota and was so impressed he immediately invited her to join them on tour. Which is how, a week later, nineteen year old Haley Bonar was transformed from college student to ambitious dropout, crammed into a Honda Civic with a guitar and a drummer for company, touring the US opening for Low.
In the decade since Haley has released a succession of recordings, each of which have garnered more praise the last, and has seen her collaborate with the likes of Andrew Bird (with whom Haley regularly plays live) and Justin Vernon (who featured on Last War).
Haley Bonar live
21 October – Brighton, Green Door Store
22 October – Gateshead, The Sage (with Field Music)
23 October – Glasgow, The Hug & Pint
24 October – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
27 October – London, Moth Club
28 October – Bristol, The Louisiana
29 October – Manchester, The Ritz (with Field Music)
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