Widowspeak are excited to announce their new album, Expect The Best will be released Friday 25 August via Captured Tracks / Remote Control.
Today the band reveals a video for the first single, ‘Dog,’ which premiered via NPR’s First Watch. Widowspeak’s Molly Hamilton told NPR the song is “about the compulsion to move on from things and places, even people, when you’re not necessarily ready to. Sometimes, I get caught up in ‘the grass is always greener’ mentalities, or cling to an idea that ‘I’d be happy if…’ and then make a drastic change. Then, inevitably, I feel restless a few months later and it starts again.”
The video for ‘Dog‘ was filmed and edited by musician/artist Otium, and filmed in Tacoma, WA.
On Expect The Best, Widowspeak use familiar aesthetics as a narrative device, a purposeful nostalgic backdrop for songs that ask, “How did we get here?” Sonically, they exist somewhere in the overlap between somber indie rock, dream pop, slow-core and their own invented genre, “cowboy grunge.” At the heart of the band, there is a palpable duality, a push and pull between the delicate and the deliberate: the contrast of lead singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton’s strikingly beautiful voice and poignant melodies with the terrestrial reality of being a four-piece rock band.
Expect The Best sees Widowspeak finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light, quiet and loud, tension and calm.
The album was written while Hamilton was living in Tacoma, Washington after previous stints in upstate New York and Brooklyn. So much moving around, and specifically a move back to the place she grew up, was the catalyst for a record concerned with self-examination and the sense of dread that comes from feeling adrift – a feeling that prevails on today’s single ‘Dog.’
Stream / Purchase ‘Dog‘: https://RemoteControl.lnk.to/Widowspeak
Widowspeak – ‘Dog’
Expect The Best Tracklisting:
The Dream
When I Tried
Dog
Warmer
Good Sport
Let Me
Right On
Expect The Best
Fly On The Wall
Widowspeak – Expect The Best is out Friday 25 August
via Captured Tracks / Remote Control
