M. Ward has been pretty busy with his side-projects (She & Him, Monsters Of Folk) over the past few years. So it’s understandable why we haven’t received a new solo album from him for a few years. This all changes on April 10 when he releases his new album A Wasteland Companion via Merge Records.
The album was made with 18 musicians (of course Zooey Deschanel is one of them) and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol. Here’s a small description of the record from M. Ward:
Between now and when I made Hold Time there has been a lot of travelling which requires a lot of reckoning with what to leave behind and what to carry – material and otherwise – and thinking about what I want versus what I need, creatively and otherwise. I wanted to get a reflection of that on the album. It was a process of stripping away my security blanket, which is the same four walls I always record in.
Hit the jump for the tracklisting:
1. Clean Slate (for Alex & El Goodo)
2. Primitive Girl
3. Me And My Shadow
4. Sweetheart
5. I Get Ideas
6. The First Time I Ran Away
7. A Wasteland Companion
8. Watch The Show
9. There’s A Key
10. Crawl After You
11. Wild Goose
12. Pure Joy
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