Half Waif announces new album, See You at the Maypole
Just months after the release of new EP Ephemeral Being, Half Waif has announced a new album, See You At the Maypole. It’s out October 4 via Anti-. Today she’s released the first single, “Figurine,” which she wrote after experiencing a miscarriage and the physical and psychological after effects. Watch its video below.
“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,” Nandi Rose, aka Half Waif, said about the new song.
“I was literally carrying death inside me,” she continues, “and then my body was frozen.
“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. 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.”
See You at the Maypole follows 2021’s Mythopoetics.
Half Waif See You at the Maypole 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
Half Waif tour dates:
10/5 – Chatham, NY @ PS21
10/9 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Made
1/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy
1/11 – Washington DC @ Songbyrd
1/13 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
1/14 – Nashville, TN @ Soft Junk
1/15 – Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
1/16 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
1/17 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Calvin University
1/29 – Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church
1/30 – Portland, ME @ One Longfellow Square
1/31 – Boston, MA @ Arts at the Armory
3/1 – Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project
3/2 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
3/4 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
3/5 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s
