Midwife announce fourth studio album, No Depression In Heaven

Inspired by ephemeral moments that make up life on tour, the totemization of vehicles, outlaws, and the psyche of America’s underbelly, No Depression In Heaven affirms Johnston’s existential status as a woman of the highway.

The album's first single "Killdozer" is an ode to a city lost in the aftermath of gentrification. It centres on the story of Marvin Heemeyer, a muffler repair shop owner who went on a demolition spree in a modified bulldozer before killing himself in a small Colorado town in 2004.

No Depression In Heaven was written primarily in the backs of vans while on tour over the course of the past few years. While recording at home in New Mexico between 2021 and 2023, Johnston aimed to create something that was rough around the edges, returning to a free recording process that was less focused on perfection and more attuned to expressing the spirit that lives inside the songs. But No Depression In Heaven is every bit as lush and hypnagogic as her 2020 full-length Forever or 2021’s Luminol.

“It’s about the transient nature of what we do,” Johnston says. “Our bodies are vessels –– our bodies are, together, a vessel, a vehicle, and that togetherness allows us to become something larger than ourselves in the slipstream of the unconscious, droving.”

Tracklist:

1. Rock N Roll Never Forgets
2. Autoluminescent
3. Droving
4. Vanessa
5. Killdozer
6. Better Off Alone
7. No Depression In Heaven