CLARA MANN shares new single/video "All My Devotion". Album 'Wishbone' out Oct 23rd via state51 / UK tour dates announced.

CLARA MANN - Shares new single/video "All My Devotion" - Album 'Wishbone' out Oct 23rd via state51 - Tour dates announced

Photo credit: Meadow Marks Today Clara Mann releases "All My Devotion", the second single from new album Wishbone, set for release Oct 23rd via state51. On the track Clara said “All My Devotion is a love song- I wrote it about my instinct to give everything to someone. I grew up in a family who showed me what devotion meant- devotion to one another, to a way of life, to making things- and I don’t know any other way to love but completely” "All My Devotion" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWPihl8r2SM "All My Devotion" on other streaming services: https://claramann.lnk.to/all-my-devotion Clara Mann is also set to perform a live BBC Radio 2 session tonight at 9pm for Mark Radcliffe. Listen here.  From the very start of the process of developing her second record, Wishbone, Mann found herself attempting something that had never come naturally to her. After the nostalgic introspection of Rift, she was determined to imagine good things for herself, and believe they might actually be within reach. It was, she says, a frightening decision – to picture a life that’s beautiful and allow herself to want it. Mann likens the wishbone image that gives the record its name to Marina Abramović's ‘Rest Energy’, the performance in which artist and partner hold a drawn bow and arrow between their bodies – a single gesture living in total trust and the possibility of ruin. It’s an emblem of love, but also of the larger wager the album keeps making; wanting good things, and letting other people want them for you, is worth the risk of the break. It’s a concept that’s never only romantic in Mann’s world – it stands for the whole precarious business of being held by anyone at all. Ultimately, that sense of presence is also what most clearly separates this record from the last. In Rift, we heard Mann still full of open questions; Wishbone has little of that backward pull. Now in her mid-20s, she writes from conviction more than question, feeling more than place. She leans deliberately into the songwriting tradition, reaching for the rough-edged, performance-driven spirit of artists like Fiona Apple and Tom Waits while keeping faith with an older lineage of plainspoken English balladry. She has the folk singer's instinct for letting air move through a song, for trusting a melody to carry meaning without ornament, but the songs across Wishbone resist the costume-drama pieties of revivalism. The ballad here is a living form; a way of telling the truth at a slight angle. Mann’s voice has never sounded more assured than on these songs: a clear and distinct instrument that’s both guiding and guided, raw and guttural when needed, the pied piper to her own balladic intonations when not. "Fortuna" was the first song written for the new album – a bridge between here and Rift – with its devastating opening couplet coming to terms with the distance to her old life: “Now that I only see colours, / I’ll forget your shape, / Blue is all I can remember, / Washed across your face.” And yet it’s shot through with joy, its loose, distant percussion drifting like a heartbeat heard through skin. Written after missing the last train home, riding two night buses through London in the early-December Christmas lights, it’s a lonely song but locked into the most vivid, magical moments of solitude. There’s a deliberate off-centredness to it that ends up feeling perfectly centred, recalling the meandering cadence of Jolie Holland. Produced by 4AD resident Fabian Prynn, the two of them built the album’s world together from Mann’s demos and voice notes across a handful of intense, sometimes 14-hour long days at Norfolk’s Bam Bam Studios. “I was so not used to hearing my music expanded like this,” laughs Mann, recalling the first time she heard Prynn’s drums across the tracks. “The purest expression of a lot of this music, as I had experienced it, had always been me alone in a big hall. ” But allowing in players she barely knew for the first time – Prynn joined by guitarist Kit Mosely, double bass player Marianne Schofield, alongside trusted friends Owen Spafford on viola, Martin Egidi on cello and Tennessee Woodiel on banjo – the songs became even more recognisable and alive to her. The abstract she was chasing was to make the album shimmer without dilution; to make it beautiful and bright but with a grounding intention, achieved best, it transpired, when she didn’t have to carry the weight of the songs alone. Wishbone is a remarkable collection, fuelled by the totality of a hope rather than a catalogue of experience. The last couple of years have put Mann on bigger and bigger stages, opening for Ben Howard, sharing rooms with the cathedral-sized melancholy of Youth Lagoon, and the shoe fits. Wishbone is the sound of an artist who has decided to want a good life out loud, and to keep deciding it, as she puts it, all the time. Pre-order Wishbone: https://clara-mann.lnk.to/wishbone Pre-order Wishbone Dinked edition: https://ffm.bio/claramann Tour dates: 16- 19 Sept - Hamburg, Germany, Reeperbahn Festival 18 Sept - Vic, Spain, MMVV 26 Sept - Montpellier, France, International Guitar Festival 30 Oct - Lucerne, Switzerland, Echolot  15 Nov - Dublin, Sugar Club  24 Nov - Edinburgh, Pianodrome 25 Nov - Manchester, Halle St Michaels 28 Nov - Bantham, Outside  29 Nov - Bristol, Lantern Theatre at Bristol Beacon 04 Dec - London, St Matthias Church Headline tour tickets on sale now from claramann.com