Widowspeak Announce Sixth Album 'The Jacket' With First Single Everything Is Simple
Tuesday, 04 January 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Alexa Viscius
Widowspeak have shared details of their sixth studio album.
'The Jacket' will arrive March 11 via Captured Tracks, having begun as a concept record about a fictional band called Le Tex. It was recorded with producer Homer Steinweiss.
As a preview, singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas have released the slow-burning, contemplative first single Everything Is Simple.
It comes with an OTIUM-directed video, in which Hamilton performs the song at a rodeo. Check it out below, alongside the record's tracklist and artwork by Andrea Smith. Discussing the song, the New York duo said:
"At the beginning of something (a relationship, a project, a job, a new place) you have this very pure feeling toward it. Everything feels less complicated because you’re oriented wholly toward that potential. It's undefined, and that makes it easier to understand, because you can’t see the problems yet. As time goes on, you learn more, you experience more, and you see where the limitations exist: not even necessarily ones imposed upon you, but where you draw your own lines. Maybe you can’t see what was holding you back until it’s in the past, and by then others’ perspectives contradict your own. Everyone is constructing their own versions of reality. The song was originally going to feed into the drama of the imaginary band, but it’s about our own band, too. I was thinking about how I'm an inherently unreliable narrator about my own life, and at the same time maybe there are no "true" stories."
OTIUM also commented: "The concept is centered around the idea of trying, knowing that even if things turn out differently than you intend, the very act itself is what you are striving to achieve."
Widowspeak will support Clairo in Miami, Orlando and Atlanta this April, before embarking on their own run of headline shows. Head here for details.
'The Jacket' tracklist:
1. While You Wait
2. Everything Is Simple
3. Salt
4. True Blue
5. The Jacket
6. Unwind
7. The Drive
8. Slow Dance
9. Forget It
10. Sleeper
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