New music
Half Waif will release new album ‘See You At The Maypole’ on October 4th.
The songwriter – real name Nandi Rose – initially began the project vowing to stay away from darkness, following the hugely emotive process of building 2021’s ‘Mythopoetics’.
Life, sadly, thought differently. Suffering a miscarriage, she took time out to grieve, before discovering that she had retained pregnancy tissue and needed an additional procedure – something that profoundly impacted on her. “I was literally carrying death inside me,” she explains, “and then my body was frozen.”
Writing sessions which had begun in the Catskills were subsequently skewed, with Half Wait then discovering that her beloved mother-in-law had been diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer.
These experiences, and more, fuse into place on ‘See You At The Maypole’. Out on October 4th via ANTI- it moves into the darkness and beyond, before somehow managing to locate a fresh sense of identity.
“This wasn’t just my story, I wanted to say. It was every story of loss—the loss of a life, the loss of a dream, the loss of trust and hope and faith. A story of finding a way back again,” Rose explains. “My own avenue back to the land of the living was through my relationships with people and with the natural world. It only seemed right that these songs would invite those people in to build the very heart of the sound.”
Beautiful new song ‘Figurine’ ranks with some of Half Waif’s most personal works – dealing with her miscarriage, it somehow learns to look towards the light.
“Not everyone will go through a miscarriage, but this is a song about how to continue on after losing something precious, how to find the light on your face again,” she says.
Tune in now.
Tracklist:
1. Fog Winter Balsam Jade
2. Collect Color
3. I-90
4. Figurine
5. Heartwood
6. Big Dipper
7. Shirtsleeves
8. Sunset Hunting
9. Dust
10. Slow Music
11. Ephemeral Being
12. Violetlight
13. Velvet Coil
14. The Museum
15. King of Tides
16. Mother Tongue
17. March Grass
Photo Credit: Logan White
