City and Colour is back with 9-minute post-folk opus "Woman" ahead of fifth LP

21 July 2015, 10:45 | Written by Laurence Day

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City and Colour, the folk-leaning solo moniker of Alexisonfire frontman Dallas Green, has announced a brand new record, and with it, a 9-minute single called "Woman".

If I Should Go Before You is Green's fifth solo record in total, and was produced by the man himself with assistance from Karl "Horse" Bareham in Nashville, Tennessee. The additional instruments and players on the LP also comprise Green's touring band - Jack Lawrence (bassist; The Raconteurs, Dead Weather), Dante Schwebel (guitarist; Spanish Gold, Dan Auerbach), Doug MacGregor (drums; Constantines) and Matt Kelly on pedal steel guitar and keys.

Speaking about working for the first time with a full band in the studio, Green said: “They inspired me to want to create new music, just to create it with them - I don’t think I wrote these songs for the band, per se, but I certainly wrote them because of the band. Anybody who has seen us play will understand that this is the best representation of what we do live that we have ever recorded. I was so excited about being able to make and record an album with these guys that it just flowed. I felt so confident about their abilities to make all of my ideas come true.”

If I Should Go Before You is released 9 October via Dine Alone Records. It follows 2013's The Hurry and The Harm.

Listen to "Woman" below, and then check out the album's tracklist afterwards.

Tracklist:

1. Woman
2. Northern Blues
3. Mizzy C
4. If I Should Go Before You
5. Killing Time
6. Wasted Love
7. Runaway
8. Lover Come Back
9. Map Of The World
10. Friends
11. Blood