Laura Veirs tries to escape reality on new song "Another Space and Time"

"Another Space and Time" follows on from previous singles "Turquoise Walls" and "Burn Too Bright", and is accompanied by a video directed by Twixx Williams that sees Veirs dancing in a music video for the first time.

Veirs says of her new outing, "I love the surrealistic elements that come into play in this video. In these lyrics I desire an escape from the way things are right now. In this "other space and time" California’s NOT burning, people DO have peace of mind, the internet is DEAD (and people are present with each other in real life instead of living on screens). This song is a dream that we can and will live in a more peaceful, loving world - and a world with more personal freedoms, too. I love how these wishes are embodied in the movements of the dancers. We look free and happy because we were."

My Echo will follow on from Veirs' 2018 LP The Lookout, and features collaborations with Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and more.

Veirs says of her forthcoming album, "My Echo is my 11th solo album. It’s my 'my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did' album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a "Secret Poetry Group" that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband/producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album."

"In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage," Veirs continues. "Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. It’s an album about disintegration. It reveals my artist’s intuition at work."