Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire announces first solo album in five years with opening track "Stories"

"Stories" is the opening song from Neufeld's new solo LP, and marks her first new solo outing since her 2016 album The Ridge.

Detritus will be Neufeld's third solo album, and she worked on it with Arcade Fire bandmate Jeremy Gara, Bell Orchestre bandmate Pietro Amato and Stuart Bogie.

The album was completed just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Neufeld says of the tracks, "I was inspired by both a sense of interior aloneness, and a sense of deep intimacy. Within both, a profound questioning of identity and intention, and ultimately, a grieving over one’s former sense of self. The stories we’ve told ourselves that we can no longer believe. Nestled within deep layers of comfort, familiarity, and solace, I’m able to repeat myself again and again, never learning, never looking back. Simultaneously becoming wiser and more ignorant as the years wind on, beauty and grace exist even here, in this rift."

Tracklist:

1. Stories
2. Unreflected
3. With Love And Blindess
4. The Top
5. Tumble Down The Undecided
6. Shed Your Dear Heart
7. Detritus