Tess Parks announces third solo album, Pomegranate

Written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, Pomegranate finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside Grammy-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire).

On the new single, Parks says: “In November 2020, Ruari was in London and I was in Toronto and he sent me the music for 'Koalas'. At this point, we hadn't seen each other in over a year. It would be another year before we saw each other again. I was suffering from severe PTSD at this point in my life, and to be honest, I couldn't bring myself to listen to the song properly until early February. When I finally did - it was one of those moments when you hear a song and you know it’s going to be one of your favourite, most cherished songs for your whole life. It's the most beautiful music I've ever heard."

Pomegranate is the follow-up to her long-awaited solo return with And Those Who Were Seen Dancing, which arrived in 2022 to critical acclaim following a string of collaborative albums with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe.

She adds: "Ruari sending me this song instigated the making of this album - a daily back and forth correspondence where he would send me music and I would sing some words over it and then he would sing other ideas back to me. It was a true lifeline at what felt like the end of the world. I don’t know who I would be without these songs, this song particularly, and waking up everyday looking forward to what he was going to send me next."

Tracklist:

1. Bagpipe Blues
2. California’s Dreaming
3. Koalas
4. Lemon Poppy
5. Charlie Potato
6. Crown Shy
7. Running Home To Sing
8. Sunnyside
9. Surround