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Jamila Woods hair flick for "Boundaries" single 2022

Jamila Woods has announced the new album Water Made Us

11 July 2023, 17:54 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

The announcement of Jamila Woods' forthcoming album arrives with the single, “Tiny Garden,” which features duendita.

“"Tiny Garden” is a song about the way my heart works, the slow and steady way I love. In my directorial debut, I wanted to create a visual representation of how I often feel in relationships, like I’m having huge feelings that I end up expressing in small specific ways," Woods says of the new single.

"The video takes place across two landscapes, the reality of a shared apartment at the tail end of winter and an imagined “heartspace” where everything is lush and green. I worked with my friend and frequent collaborator Po Chop on the choreography, so that the movement becomes the key to merging these two worlds – everywhere I dance, something grows.

The new album takes its name from a quote by Toni Morrison, whose works have also inspired Woods’ song “Sula (Paperback)” and a chapbook of her poetry.

Water Made Us feels like the most personal and vulnerable piece of art I’ve ever made. I love creating from source material, diving deep into a subject and extrapolating from what I discover. We sat in the house for two years and I became my own source material," she continues. "

Shout out to the therapists, the astrologers, the family members, and friends who listened, who helped me process and transform my journaled thoughts and questions into this body of work. I hope it feels like a playlist that carries you through the life cycle of a relationship, whatever stage of the journey your heart may be in."

Water Made Us is Woods’ third album, and the follow-up to 2019’s Legacy! Legacy!.

Tracklist:

  1. Bugs
  2. Tiny Garden (feat. duendita)
  3. Practice (feat. Saba)
  4. Let the Cards Fall
  5. Send a Dove
  6. Wreckage Room
  7. Thermostat (feat. Peter CottonTale)
  8. Out of the Doldrums
  9. Wolfsheep
  10. I Miss All My Exes
  11. Backburner
  12. Libra Intuition
  13. Boomerang
  14. Still
  15. The Best Thing
  16. Good News
  17. Headfirst

"Tiny Garden" is out now. Water Made Us is set for release on 13 October via Jagjaguwar.

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