GHOSTS IN THE GARDEN

NEW ALBUM IN MARCH // NEW SONG TODAY

This time last year I was freshly back from the studio with rough mixes in hand: drained, grateful, and way too far inside the project to even know what it was yet. After a lot of hard work by a lot of people, I’m overjoyed to announce that the finished product is the new album GHOSTS IN THE GARDEN, coming to your ears on March 7 2025!

I made it with a small band of some of the most creative and collaborative players I know: Ray Rizzo on drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis on bass, Erik Koskinen on guitars. We spent four days camped out at Great North Sound Society with Sam Kassirer engineering and playing keys. There are many extremely special guests to be discussed later. Anja Schütz took the unreal cover photo.

The garden is the now, the living, blooming present. The ghosts are many - all our dead and departed, our lost loves and past mistakes and roads not taken, and our possible futures too - crowding into the moment like they do ✨ There’s a lot of grief in this record, a lot of loss and change. Also abiding love, quiet longing, deep worry, wild joy. I’m so grateful to all of the amazing people who are a part of it

The first song we’re releasing is the last song on the record, and the oldest one too: “Something to Show” was on the list of possibilities for Long Day in the Milky Way, but it didn’t quite feel like that album was its home. So here it is now, serving as a bridge between the past and the present, where we’ve been and where we’re going. It’s a song for all my fellow insomniacs, a song of lying wide awake in the middle of the night, floating out of your body like the ghost of a dream, searching out across the dark lake of sky, hoping all the inner work and midnight worries will ultimately get you somewhere. The astrally gorgeous backing vocals on this one are by my dear friend/favorite Canadian, Rose Cousins.

Please listen, share, stream, buy, play it loud in your car at night; whatever you do to make new music welcome in the world! And please enjoy this video of four bundled-up musicians in a big drafty studio, working together to bring this song to life - footage shot by Louise Bichan.

Thankyou everybody and I can’t wait to share the whole album with you! *kd