Warren also announced a lengthy US tour kicking off in February 2027. An avid herbalist and proponent of responsible ecological stewardship, Warren will be featuring local herbalists and regenerative farmers at every show, to shine a light on the importance of sustainable food systems and ancestral wisdom. The nationwide tour, with support from Californian folk duo Magnetize, will take her through Phoenix, Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Orlando, Philadelphia, DC, Brooklyn, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco, among many others. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit her website.
"I owe my life to the plants,” stated Warren. “Herbalism has resolved multiple chronic health issues for which Western allopathic medicine told me there was no cure, only expensive drugs. This is a small way of showing my gratitude. I believe the root of so much destruction and greed in the world is disconnection—from nature, from each other, from our wildness. Earth wants to feed us and heal us for free. I feel very sad for the soul-sick billionaires hoarding their imaginary currency who have forgotten this, or perhaps never knew."
“The Current” follows the release of the album’s lead single “Automatic,” a driving, angsty tune accompanied by an official video featuring found footage filmed by a teenage Warren with a digital camcorder visualizing excerpts from her dream journal. Consequence featured it as a Best Song of the Week and raved “Recorded live to tape, the track captures the loose chemistry of Warren and her band, making for an especially compelling return from the singer-songwriter.” Warren also recently released “Islamorada”, a lovesick confessional hovering in deep space, accompanied only by the galactic swell of Chris St. Hilaire (The Black Keys) on electric guitar and David Rothon (Marissa Nadler) on pedal steel. Stereogum hailed it as “another poignant tune that finds power in pleading,” while BBC Radio Wales called it “sublime.”
There are hungers that keep us alive, and hungers that consume us. Across the fourteen songs on Frog in the Belly of a Snake, Warren twists and winds through the unruly terrain of human appetites: hunger for food, hunger for love, hunger for freedom, for glory, connection, annihilation. It’s deliberate and meditative, rooted firmly in the healing power of the natural world, with performances that tap into a profound sense of liberation while finding comfort and release in the embrace of our transience. A dark ecological eroticism runs rampant throughout the album. It is both cosmic and profane, sexy and depressing, furious and funny. Warren’s production choices are psychedelically eclectic: lush arrangements, often involving found objects such as glass bottles and pieces of scrap metal, give way to stark a cappella invocations. Rogue field recordings from Warren’s extensive travels (drag queens clacking over a metal bridge in stilettos at midnight, a Welsh farmer complaining about filling in forms, a friend’s newborn baby cooing and gurgling) add layers of autobiographical depth and sonic mystery.
Much of the foundational tracking for Frog in the Belly of a Snake was done live to tape at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate, UK, with CJ Jones on drums and Tom Sansbury on bass, while Warren was finishing up her last studio album, 2022’s Lessons for Mutants. But the following year, Warren publicly stepped back from music indefinitely to focus on her health. After a traumatic childhood and decades of living with chronic illness, addiction, disordered eating and the relentless demands of a musical career, Warren reached a breaking point. “My body was staging a protest,” Warren says. “A riot. And rightly so. It had been petitioning me for years to make some serious changes, and I let it get to a point where it stopped asking nicely and started throwing Molotov cocktails in the streets.”
In the reclusive, introspective years that followed, Warren let it all go and focused on “tending to the wound.” And in that space of surrender—with a great deal of help from the natural world (Warren is a passionate herbalist and forager) and her local community (especially a cohort of young regenerative landworkers growing organic vegetables in the rural Welsh village she now calls home)—her body healed remarkably, and her desire to make music returned in an entirely new way: “When I was younger, I was consumed by this burning, gnawing ambition eating away at me from the inside. Now I feel full.”
When she revisited her 2022 recordings three years later, she knew they were not just demos. “There was a freedom and a lightness in our playing, because we were just messing around, with none of the pressure or heaviness of making a record.” Over the next year, Warren continued to chip away at recording additional songs and layers of production in her bedroom in Wales, and completed tracking during a winter artist residency in New Jersey at Soul Selects Studio. The resulting album is not an account of personal recovery so much as it is a prayer for collective regeneration. Taken as a whole, it’s a poignant exploration of the delicate web of life and death that binds us all, a celebration of mystery and impermanence that captures both the terrifying vulnerability and ecstatic relief of learning to let go and start anew.
Track Listing:
01) Web
02) The Current
03) Circular Logic
04) Automatic
05) Invocation
06) A Power Greater
07) Islamorada
08) Wildcrafted
09) Silver Light
10) Voice of Reason
11) Frog in the Belly of a Snake
12) Bathwater Baby
13) New Friend Blues
14) Feeding Me Feeding You
TOUR DATES:
12/12 - London, UK @ Morocco Bound
12/19 - Hay-on-Wye, UK @ Amlen
02/02 - Phoenix, AZ @ House Show
02/03 - Tucson, AZ @ Groundworks
02/04 - Truth or Consequences, NM @ 420 Broadway Event Space
02/05 - Santa Fe, NM @ Paradiso
02/08 - Roswell, NM @ The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
02/10 - Austin, TX @ Cactus Cafe
02/11 - Buda, TX @ Meridian
02/12 - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
02/17 - Memphis, TN @ Hernando’s Hideaway
02/18 - Franklin, TN @ Mockingbird Theatre
02/21 - Atlanta, GA @ Eddie’s Attic
02/23 - Tallahassee, FL @ Analog House
02/24 - Atlantic Beach, FL @ The Back Bar at Be-In
02/25 - St. Augustine, FL @ Spinster Abbots
02/26 - Gainesville, FL @ The Bull
02/27 - St. Petersburg, FL @ Kerouac House
03/03 - Orlando, FL @ Casselberry Arts Center
03/05 - Old Fort, NC @ Seeker Coffee (Lonesome Station)
03/06 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
03/08 - Richmond, VA @ Révelér
03/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Harmonie Hall
03/11 - Hopewell, NJ @ Studio 17
03/12 - Washington, DC @ The Kennedy Center
03/13 - Doylestown, PA @ Tileworks
03/15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Jalopy Theatre
03/17 - Catskill, NY @ Avalon Lounge
03/19 - Florence, MA @ The Hidden Temple
03/20 - Manchester, VT @ Billsville
03/25 - Akron, OH @ The Rialto Theatre
03/28 - Chicago, IL @ United Church of Rogers Park
03/30 - Kenosha, WI @ The White Lilac
03/31 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
04/01 - Minneapolis, MN @ Art Institute of Minneapolis
04/02 - Kansas City, MO @ Loft Show
04/04 - Silver Plume, CO @ Bread Bar
04/09 - Lindon, UT @ House Show
04/14 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church
04/15 - Seattle, WA @ Ballard Homestead
04/17 - Port Townsend, WA @ Rainshadow Recording
04/18 - Whidbey Island, WA @ Bailey’s Corner Store
04/22 - Santa Rosa, CA @ The Lost Church
04/23 - San Francisco, CA @ The Lost Church
04/24 - Nicasio, CA @ House Show
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