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Bonny Light Horseman double album

Bonny Light Horseman announce double album, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

08 April 2024, 16:49 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

Bonny Light Horseman – the trio of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman – have announced their third full-length and Jagjaguwar debut, the double album Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free.

The announcement is accompanied by lead single “I Know You Know” alongside the band's first-ever music video.

“When thinking about directors for Bonny Light Horseman’s first (!!!) ever music video, Kimberly Stuckwisch leapt to mind immediately. I’d been a longtime fan of her always-evocative work–and for our band I felt like she’d ‘get it,’” explains Johnson. “The treatment she came back with was deeply aligned with the sentiments of the song: life’s multiverse, the dualities of joy and pain, the choices we make that chart our course towards one way or another. We shot this on a salt flat in the Mojave desert, trying to outrun the sunset and packs of salty coyotes, under the watch of some wayward desert pelicans.”

Written over five months in 2023, this third album began when the band’s core trio convened in the century-old pub Levis (pronounced: “leh-viss”) Corner House in Ballydehob, Ireland. Mitchell suggested the pub as their first recording location, based on her one conversation with owner Joe O’Leary. The pub’s upright piano, which they lubricated with olive oil to quiet its creaking, became a sort of spiritual fulcrum, a single entity that embodied all of the album’s motifs: imperfection as a badge of honor; aging, endurance and the passage of time; how the simplest of acts can heal us.

Tracklist:

  1. Keep Me on Your Mind
  2. Lover Take It Easy
  3. I Know You Know
  4. grinch/funeral
  5. Old Dutch
  6. When I Was Younger
  7. Waiting and Waiting
  8. Hare and Hound
  9. Rock the Cradle
  10. Singing to the Mandolin
  11. The Clover
  12. Into the O
  13. Don’t Know Why You Move Me
  14. Speak to Me Muse
  15. think of the royalties, lads
  16. Tumblin Down
  17. I Wanna Be Where You Are
  18. Over the Pass
  19. Your Arms (All the Time)
  20. See You Free

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free will be released on 7 June via Jagjaguwar.

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