Half Waif Announces New Album 'Lavender', Unveils Video For Lead Single Keep It Out
Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Tonje Thilesen
Half Waif will release a new album this spring.
’Lavender’, which follows up 2016’s ’Probable Depths’ and last year’s ’form/a’ EP, will arrive on April 27 through Cascine.
Speaking about the new record, Nandi Rose Plunkett said:
"Lavender is so named for my grandmother Asha - a nod to the lavender she would pluck from her garden and boil in a pot on the stove. The first time I noticed her doing this, it struck me as a kind of magic: the small black cauldron bubbling with a piece of the earth. She did it to make the house smell good. I believe it was also a ritual of purification, clearing out any shadows that may have tried to creep into the old English home she’d lived in, alone, for fifty years.
When I wrote and recorded Lavender, my grandmother was alive, and though she wasn’t ill at the time of her sudden death in September, it was obvious her life - after 95 years - was drawing to a close. As a result, themes of aging and collapse are all over this album. It is an elegy to time, the pilgrimages we take, and the ultimate slow plod towards our end. It is an examination of the way we fracture, inside ourselves and inside our relationships - the fissures that creep along the structures we build, the tendency towards disintegration.
We face many endings in our lives, on the path toward that unfathomable yet omnipresent ultimate Ending. Break-ups and divorces, marriages and the estrangement of the self, hard times and bittersweet relief, steep precipices that rise up beyond our control over and over again. These endings are markers of time and growth, small personal apocalypses that pockmark our days. And yet there is more to come when the terror subsides; even the night itself - that great darkness - must end and give way to new light. Lavender is a talisman to hold in the midst of that uncertainty, to heal and remind ourselves that it’s not over. It’s not ending yet."
Head below for the video for the album’s lead single, Keep It Out, artwork and tracklist.
’Lavender’ tracklist:
1. Lavender Burning
2. Torches
3. Keep It Out
4. Lilac House
5. In The Evening
6. Solid 2 Void
7. Silt
8. Back In Brooklyn
9. Parts
10. Leveler
11. Salt Candy
12. Ocean Scope
Half Waif will return to the UK and Ireland next week when supporting Iron & Wine on their European tour. Head here for dates.
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