claire rousay announces new album
sentiment
Released April 19th on Thrill Jockey
Stream and share lead single ‘head’ on Apple Music, Spotify
“[Claire Rousay's] work, at its core, is an experiment in using commonplace environmental sounds to tug at the heartstrings directly.” - The Guardian
“Listening to rousay's music often feels like experiencing the world through someone else's ears, instilled with tenderness.” - NPR
“Perhaps what sets rousay apart from the hundreds of field-recordings-and-drone workers out there is the mystery of her organization. Her tracks might be improvised or labored upon. They feel both sui generis and tossed off. You can hear her hand, and it makes you wonder, and in that way her recordings are empathy machines. They warm and flatter as they fill the air around you, silk scarves just out of reach.” - Pitchfork
claire rousay has announced her debut Thrill Jockey album sentiment, out on April 19th. sentiment is a meditation of the poignant emotional terrains of loneliness, nostalgia, sentimentality, guilt, and sex. The album’s narrative arc is guided by delicate musical gestures and artistic vulnerability, audaciously synthesizing disparate and unexpected influences. rousay crafted the songs in various homes, bedrooms, hotels, and other private places, the feeling of time and energy spent alone radiating from each passage. The album is a collection of heart-rending, incisive pop songs that explore universal feelings with subtlety and remarkable vision.
Along with the album's announcement, rousay has shared the first two singles "head" and "ily2 (feat. Hand Habits)". "head" blossoms with a stately guitar figure and fragile strings punctuated by an emotional and percussive gut-punch that borrows from slowcore, rousay lamenting and offering penance for problems before they happen with “Spending half of my whole life giving you head / just in case you need to forgive me / one day for something that i did”." Album closer "ily2 (feat. Hand Habits)," available exclusively via NPR's All Songs Considered, is emblematic of the ever-shifting blend of musical aesthetics rousay employs across the album, her ostinato acoustic guitar figures and signature auto-tuned voice accompanied by layers of slow-motion strings, and a constellation of subtle melodic gestures.
rousay has also announced an international tour in support of sentiment throughout the Spring, including sets at Big Ears Festival and Long Play Festival.
sentiment balances the poetic soul of her influences with a documentarian heart, rousay capturing moments of her life while living alone in houses across the country, learning to play guitar, and reconnecting with pop music. “I have been on a quest to communicate my feelings and ideas as clearly as possible lately. Pop seemed like the way to do that this time,” says rousay. The confessional nature of sampled fragments of conversation give her pieces a specificity and sense of intimacy that is both immediate and curious. rousay’s innate ability to conjure pure feeling from sound derives from her delightful embrace of pop forms, the vulnerability found in field recordings, minimalistic arrangements and innovative sound choices. The resulting songs of sentiment are as anthemic as they are breathtakingly personal. sentiment is blissfully, achingly melancholic, and an undeniably sensual listening experience.
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sentiment tracklist
1. 4pm
2. head
3. it could be anything
4. asking for it
5. iii
6. lover's spit plays in the background
7. sycamore skylight
8. please 5 more minutes (feat. Lala Lala)
9. w sunset blvd
10. ily2 (feat Hand Habits)
claire rousay tour dates
Mar. 22 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival
Apr. 11 - Omaha, NE - Bemis Center
Apr. 24 - Portland, OR - The Old Church
Apr. 25 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey
Apr. 27 - Los Angeles, CA - Arts + Archives 2220
May 1 - Chicago, IL - Sleeping Village
May 5 - Brooklyn, NY - Long Play Festival
May 9 - San Francisco, CA - The Lab
May 10 - Santa Cruz, CA - Indexical
May 19 - Washington, DC - Rhizome
May 23 - Amsterdam, NL - Dokzaal
May 24 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green - Kuppelhalle
May 25 - Prague, CZ - Vila Štvanic
May 26 - Brussels, BE - Botanique - Rotonde
May 28 - Bristol, UK - Lantern Hall @ Bristol Beacon
May 29 - London, UK - ICA
May 30 - Manchester, UK - St Michael’s
May 31 - Glasgow, UK - The Glad Cafe
Jun. 1 - Dublin, IE - Project Arts Centre
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