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Widowspeak preview new album with title-track "The Jacket"

16 February 2022, 16:42 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Widowspeak have unveiled new single "The Jacket", which is the third single to be lifted from their upcoming album of the same name.

"The Jacket" follows previous releases "While You Wait" and "Everything Is Simple", and is teamed with a OTIUM-directed video.

Speaking about the new single, the duo say, ""The Jacket" is about things we choose, dress up in and adopt as symbols of who we are. Things that become objects loaded with meaning until we eventually lose or discard them, grow out of them. It’s a literal jacket in the song, and in the context of the storyline represents all the cliches (imagined and real) of being in a band, rock and roll, youth, projecting “cool” (or thinking you do), and believing in the power of symbols and costume to help find and define your true self. Eventually you move on from the moment, and the sorts of places and experiences and relationships tied to that time, when "The Jacket" was your favorite thing in the world and felt like a part of you. It’s hard to let go. But you notice you aren’t that person anymore. "The Jacket", and everything it represented, was left behind somewhere along the way."

The Jacket will follow 2020's Plum album, and was recorded at New York's Diamond Mine with co-producer Homer Steinweiss.

"The Jacket" is out now. Widowspeak's new album of the same name will arrive via Captured Tracks on 11 March, and is available to pre-order now.
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