Daughter of Swords (Mountain Man's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig) shares "Dawnbreaker," announces debut LP

DAUGHTER OF SWORDS

AKA

 MOUNTAIN MAN'S ALEXANDRA SAUSER-MONNIG

ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM, DAWNBREAKER

OUT JUNE 28 ON NONESUCH

VIDEO FOR THE ALBUM'S TITLE TRACK PREMIERES TODAY

Album Art Credit: Kendall Bailey Atwater)

Daughter of Swords, aka Mountain Man's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, releases her debut album on June 28th via Nonesuch Records. A D.L. Anderson-directed video for the title track premiered today on NPR, which said it's "a soft swoon of a song that goes down like a cup of hot cocoa laced with CBD oil."

Sauser- Monnig  says of the title track "'Dawnbreaker' is about waking to the day beautifully breaking around you, and waking also to the realization that the life you've been leading is breaking with it.

The version of 'Dawnbreaker' that is on the record was one of the first takes recorded of the whole record. It wasn't really intended to be the final version of the song, but as the rest of the record came together, we realized that the rawness of that first take embodied the emotional quality that the record wanted to end on."

Last month, Daughter of Swords released "Gem," which was hailed by NPR as "a slice of poppy folk music so sweetly radiant, it's essentially a summer sunbeam in song form." The Wild Honey Pie called it "a precious summer-soaked keepsake, a treasure found amongst sweet green grasses."

Additionally, Daughter of Swords has announced two New York shows in November with Sylvan Esso at the Beacon Theater, with more tour dates to come. All dates below.

WATCH THE "DAWNBREAKER" VIDEO

TOUR DATES:

6/18 - Saxapahaw, NC - Haw River Ballroom ^

11/17 - New York, NY - Beacon Theater *

11/18 - New York, NY - Beacon Theater *

^ w/ Iron & Wine and Calexico

* w/ Sylvan Esso