Widowspeak stream new album "All Yours"
WIDOWSPEAK STREAM NEW ALBUM ON KCRW
ALL YOURS RELEASED 4TH SEPTEMBER 2015 ON CAPTURED TRACKS
All Yours KCRW album stream
Widowspeak‘s gorgeous new album All Yours is out this Friday on Captured Tracks, and fans of the band can hear the record streamed in its entirety right now at KCRW who call it the band’s “most complete record to date.” They tell us to “kick back, imagine yourself out on the porch amongst the green Catskills and enjoy a great new record!”
Earlier The FADER, Stereogum and NPR all premiered tracks from the record, you can read what they have to say below. All Yours is out 4th September on Captured Tracks and can be pre-ordered here.
What people are saying about All Yours:
“”All Yours,” the title track from Widowspeak’s upcoming fourth album, reminds Bob Boilen of a dreamy summer day with its layers of acoustic guitars and relaxed vocals.” – NPR
“Widowspeak returned with “Girls”, which has the band giving off a newly-acquired pastoral vibe, earned by moving out of Brooklyn for the wilds of the Hudson Valley.” – Vanity Fair
“optimistic-feeling swirl of twangy, textured guitars and dreamy-as-hell vocals.” – The FADER
“boasts deeper pleasures than either of the albums that preceded it” – Under The Radar
“Widowspeak take the best parts of folk and shoegaze and twist them together in a lovely, non-threatening storm.” – Stereogum
“Languid, nostalgic, and insightful” – FLOOD
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.
“Dead Love (So Still)”
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
“Girls”
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