Half Waif, the mission of Nandi Rose, is again with a brand new album. See You on the Maypole, the follow-up to 2021’s Mythopoetics, arrives October 4 by way of Anti-. New music “Figurine” leads the LP. Beneath, watch its Derrick Belcham–directed video, shot at Rose’s upstate New York residence with choreographer Kora Radella, and scroll all the way down to see Annika Tucksmith’s album artwork and the tracklist. Half Waif will tour the USA behind the LP; try the dates under.
In press supplies, Rose explains how a theme of the album arose from a medical episode that adopted a miscarriage. Of “Figurine,” Rose says, “Not everybody will undergo a miscarriage, however this can be a music about how one can proceed on after dropping one thing treasured, how one can discover the sunshine in your face once more.” She continues, “I used to be actually carrying loss of life inside me, after which my physique was frozen…. This wasn’t simply my story, I wished to say. It was each story of loss—the lack of a life, the lack of a dream, the lack of belief and hope and religion. A narrative of discovering a approach again once more.”
Rose labored with longtime collaborator Zubin Hensler on the LP, together with a rotating band together with percussionists Jason Burger and Zack Levine, guitarist Josh Marre, violinists Hannah Epperson and Elena Moon Park, clarinettist Kristina Teuschler, trombonist Willem de Koch, harpist Rebecca El-Saleh, and upright bassist Spencer Zahn.
