Widowspeak have announced their new album Roses, due out June 5th, along with the lead single “If You Change.” Pre-order ‘Roses’

Listen + Watch “If You Change”

Across ‘Roses’ intimate spaces and stages of love are captured with a nostalgic, vaseline-coated lens. If music can simultaneously be naturalistic and noir, saturated and lush, that is Widowspeak.  This is a band that knows how to set a scene.

The lead single “If You Change” captures everything we love about their sound, from its breezy guitars to the impossibly rich chorus, there’s a timeless quality imbued with the twang of a Lynchian roadhouse band.

On the single, vocalist Molly Hamilton says she “thought about the fear of change, and when things (situations, objects) feel stuck in time because of a fear of ruining them. You always hear “mint condition” as though it is as an asset, but it also means that thing hasn’t been used, lived with, loved. It never gets to fulfill its destiny.”

Listen + Watch “If You Change”

Widowspeak recorded the album last January at the Old Carpet Factory on the Greek island Hydra: a studio in an old house tucked into the village’s steep hills. It’s quiet there in winter, when the tourists have all gone home. Longtime touring members Willy Muse, John Andrews, and Noah Bond serve here as the players. Roseswas then taken home and slowly, lightly tinkered with, before being deftly mixed by Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun Studios, and mastered by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering.

Pre-order ‘Roses’

Alongside the single and news of the new album, the band have announced a run of US tour dates this Summer. Tickets on-sale this Friday.

Tour Dates

06/16 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg

06/18 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s

06/19 – Washington DC – DC9

06/20 – Mount Solon, VA – Red Wing Roots Festival

06/22 – Raleigh, NC – Pour House

06/23 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl

06/24 – Nashville, TN – Third Man Blue Room

06/26 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry

06/27 – Milwaukee, WI – The Argo

06/28 – Chicago, IL – Schubas

06/30 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag

07/01 – Toronto, ON – Sound Garage

07/02 – Montreal, QC – L’Esco

07/03 – Boston, MA – Arts at the Armory

07/30 – Seattle, WA – Barboza

07/31-08/02 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon (Festival)

08/04 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill

08/07 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room

08/08 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room

08/09 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar

08/11 – Santa Fe, NM – Tumbleroot Brewery

08/12 – Denver, CO – Hi-Dive

08/14 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge (Psych Lake City Festival)

08/15 – Boise, ID – Shrine Social Club

08/16 – Spokane, WA – The District