lavender announce debut album, we're having a barn dance

"This track is the conclusion of the album. It is a reflection and triumphant end of a chapter, simultaneously looking back with fondness and forward with optimism. It was the last track we made for the album, and benefits from hindsight providing some final musings and a level of resolve on the themes of the album," lavender says.

we're having a barn dance is the story of one tumultuous year of living, loving (and the falling out thereof). The songwriting is a diary of an eventful 12 months. “We had a big chat about what this all means to us,” explains Oskar, “And we boiled it down to this: it’s about love, but not necessarily romantic love. It’s about all of those competing emotions and how, if you love one thing, it might detract from loving something else.”

we’re having a barn dance is both literally and metaphorically their one year safari of discovery, starting in a farmhouse in France through to a studio behind Lidl in Limehouse. “I think the album for me feels like a journey,” explains Jackson.

“I was definitely fixated on this multifaceted concept of ‘home’ throughout the writing process. It seems to start with a departure and sets in motion an attempt to try and locate, then return to, an ever-evolving sense of home. Which is interesting as I was couch-surfing for the bulk of the time we were writing the album, living across so many different homes. Oskar and I gave each other permission to use the shared project as a personal outlet. And making it was entwined with a process of self-reckoning and was helpful in a way that I hadn’t experienced from music before.”

Tracklist:

1. lowlight:slowlight
2. (ifnotnowthen)when
3. you & me
4. we’re having a barn dance
5. cowboy pancakes
6. lowlight (reprise)
7. missing you
8. way over
9. cowboynowboy (life in the quadrant)
10. harlequin/los días azules