Flock of Dimes, the solo project of Wye Oak multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner, has announced a new album and a short tour. The Life You Save is out October 10 via Sub Pop. Leading the record is the new song “Long After Midnight,” which comes with an intimate music video directed by Spencer Kelly in which Wasner performs the song on acoustic guitar sitting on a living room floor while movers remove each item around her one by one. Watch it below.
“My previous records, generally, have been a summary of things I had already been through— experiences I had observed and reflected upon, reporting back from some amount of distance. But this record is different,” wrote Wasner. “It is an attempt to report from inside of a process that is ongoing and unfinished, from which I will likely never fully emerge as long as I am alive: my struggle within the cycles of addiction and co-dependency.… In the end, it is my hope that this record exists as a testament to the depth of my love for those I cannot save, and that it might provide some comfort for anyone who is still learning how to love and live for themselves.”
The Life You Save was produced by Wasner and recorded in both Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Los Angeles. The 12-track LP follows Flock of Dimes sophomore studio album, Head of Roses, from 2021. As for Wasner’s work in Wye Oak, that band’s latest LP was 2023’s Every Day Like the Last.
Flock of Dimes will embark on a headlining tour of the United States at the end of this year. Beginning on November 6 in Philadelphia, Wasner plans to bring The Life You Save songs to life in select cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. That run ends on December 5 in Los Angeles. Find her complete list of tour dates down below.
Revisit Allison Hussey’s interview “Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner on Songwriting as Self-Acceptance.”
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The Life You Save:
01 Afraid
02 Keep Me in the Dark
03 Long After Midnight
04 Defeat
05 Close to Home
06 The Enemy
07 Not Yet Free
08 Pride
09 Theo
10 Instead of Calling
11 River in My Arms
12 I Think I’m God
Flock of Dimes:
11-06 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
11-07 New Haven, CT – Space Ballroom
11-08 Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
11-09 Somerville, MA – The Rockwell
11-11 Washington, DC – The Atlantis
11-12 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
12-01 Seattle, WA – Barboza
12-02 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
12-04 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
12-05 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
