La Luz's Shana Cleveland releases new album opener "A Ghost"

After announcing Manzanita with the lead outing "Faces in the Firelight" last month, Cleveland has delivered a second preview of the record titled "A Ghost", which lands with a Vice Cooler-directed video.

Cleveland says, "I never really gave pregnancy and childbirth very much thought, and when I did become pregnant I was surprised by how much of a psychedelic experience it was. A subtitle for this album could be: What to Expect When You Are Open to the Mysteries of the Universe. When I sat outside the house looking out across the field, the chemistry and shape of my body constantly changing, I understood that I was no different than the plants and animals around me."

Manzanita will follow Cleveland's 2019 solo album Night of the Worm Moon, and La Luz's 2021 self-titled album, and features Abbey Blackwell (Alvvays, La Luz) on bass, Olie Eshleman on pedal steel, and Will Sprott on keyboards, dulcimer, glockenspiel, harpsichord and synthesizer.