Widowspeak share "Dead Love (So Still)"
WIDOWSPEAK SHARE NEW SONG “DEAD LOVE (SO STILL)”
ALL YOURS RELEASED 4TH SEPTEMBER 2015 ON CAPTURED TRACKS
Widowspeak‘s gorgeous new album All Yours is out 4th September on Captured Tracks and the band has given us another hint of what’s to come this week. The duo dropped a new track this week via The FADER entitled “Dead Love (So Still)”.
The song is about a relationship the band’s Molly Hamilton had while she was a teenager. “I wrote an early version of this song when I was 19,” she told The FADER in an email. It was one of those naive situations where I thought I was with someone and he didn’t, but the energy and emotion I’d invested in our non-relationship still made its inevitable end feel significant. The mood [of the album version] is a lot more lighthearted than the first. I’ve had so many more experiences since then that require letting things go, and I’m a lot more okay with closed doors that I used to be.”
The FADER describe “Dead Love (So Still)” as having an “optimistic-feeling swirl of twangy, textured guitars and dreamy-as-hell vocals” hailing it as “Another Gorgeous Slow-Burner.” It’s the third song the band have leaked from their upcoming record, already we’ve been given a taste of what’s in store with Stereogum premiering “Girls” a track they describe as “dream-country” and compliment their sound writing “….they bring two very divergent styles together into a cohesive whole.” The track is about self doubt and falling into the trap of comparing yourself to others. Pitchfork noted “the track’s unhurried pace, marked by softly unwinding guitars and an optimistic, sprightly through line, makes it clear that Hamilton is not feeling an ounce of panic-that she is, in fact, coming to terms with her jealousy or self-doubt-because on the other side of the coin can be inspiration.” Vanity Fair also weigh in observing the band is “… giving off a newly-acquired pastoral vibe, earned by moving out of Brooklyn for the wilds of the Hudson Valley, seemingly by way of Laurel Canyon.”
The opening song from the LP was premiered by NPR. “All Yours,” the title track, reminds Bob Boilen of “a dreamy summer day with its layers of acoustic guitars and relaxed vocals.” All Yours is out 4th September on Captured Tracks and can be pre-ordered here.
“Girls”
More about All Yours
Since they came on the scene five years ago, Widowspeak has seen many permanent changes: new lineups, new environments. Instead of bringing additional permanent members into the fold after the departure of its founding drummer, the band was whittled down to a duo, a lineup which has remained constant since 2012. After releasing a second LP, Almanac, and The Swamps EP (both in 2013), Molly and Rob left Brooklyn for the (quite literally) greener pastures of the Catskills/Hudson Valley region. They found a house they could play music in. They got a dog.
And they took their damn time making All Yours. For one, the conceptual process of writing Almanac and The Swamps had been creatively draining. They focused on other things: Molly went back to school, Rob took a job at a Catskills hotel. They wrote leisurely, from shared voice memos and late night jams in the living room. As a result of writing down what came naturally, without any overarching vision, the lyrics on All Yours are largely unadorned, the songs connected only by the forgivingly vague theme of “moving on”.
Appropriately, the band chose to work again with Jarvis Taveniere, who produced their self-titled debut in 2011. They also enlisted him and drummer Aaron Neveu (both of whom play in Woods) as the studio rhythm section. The presence of Taveniere and Neveu contributes a groove that wasn’t there previously, and there’s a few other new things: the swell of strings at critical moments, and for the first time, voices beyond Molly’s own. We finally get to hear Rob sing in the earnestly laid-back ‘Borrowed World.’ Members of psych outfit Quilt contribute harmonies and keys throughout the record, most notably in ‘My Baby’s Gonna Carry On,’ and ‘Cosmically Aligned.’
Perhaps All Yours is so refreshing because it’s a return to form. It’s a record that feels as effortlessly unplanned as their debut, that serves to capture a moment rather than create one.
WIDOWSPEAK ALL YOURS TRACKLISTING
All Yours
Narrows
Dead Love (So Still)
Stoned
Girls
Borrowed World
Cosmically Aligned
My Baby’s Gonna Carry On
Coke Bottle Green
Hands
“All Yours” on NPR
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