Vera Sola announces first new album in five years, Peacemaker

Peacemaker follows Vera Sola's critically acclaimed 2018 debut Shades. Created in near-total isolation, when she finally decided to release it, it was the first time Vera Sola had ever let anyone hear her sing. For her forthcoming album, which was recorded predominantly in Nashville over the fall of 2019, Vera Sola opened herself up to the magic of collaboration, working alongside co-producer Kenneth Pattengale to bring in dozens of musicians to embellish the sound.

"I see this record as a sort of topography of memory", she explains, "if one were to unroll the mind, and watch as the moments that coalesce into memories rise from the map into relief. It’s a collection of stories stitched together with that particular dreamlike quality which allows for disparate spaces to converge into a single scarcely knowable vastness".

Despite the ambition of the project, Peacemaker wasn’t intended to be years in the making but so it was. Loss, righteous anger, climate despair, illness and eventually radical acceptance seemed to domino over the years of creation.

"I’ve since moved through the heart of the rage" she explains "and initially when considering the release of this record so long after its recording I wondered whether it was wise to open that door again. But I’ve come to learn that there is a lot of love in anger". Continuing, "I heard it said recently that anger is the deepest form of care. It’s important to feel and express and allow for that kind of care. We can’t move beyond anger without expressing it. The only way out is through".

Tracklist:

1. Bad Idea
2. The Line
3. I'm Lying
4. Get Wise
5. Desire Path
6. Waiting
7. Bird House
8. Hands
9. Is That You
10. Blood Bond
11. Instrument of War