JUANITA STEIN’S New Album ‘The Weightless Hour’ Out Nov 29th

JUANITA STEIN’S NEW ALBUM ‘THE WEIGHTLESS HOUR’ OUT ON 29th NOVEMBER

HEAR FIRST TRACK ‘MOTHER NATURES SCORN’ + WATCH VIDEO

ON TOUR WITH EVAN DANDO IN OCTOBER AND TRAVIS IN DECEMBER UNPLUGGED INSTORE SHOWS IN NOVEMBER

Juanita Stein will release her new album ‘The Weightless Hour’ on 29th November via Agricultural Audio. The Howling Bells front-woman will bookend her fourth solo LP’s release with a series of live dates, including a UK tour with Evan Dando, and a series of in-store shows, before joining Travis on their UK dates in December.

Today, she shares the first single ‘Mother Natures Scorn’, alongside a video directed by Orlando Cubitt.

Juanita explains: “As the title suggests, ‘Mother Natures Scorn’ is a song about our scorching of the Earth. It’s about recognizing that we are in a moment approaching irreversibility. Even so, it feels as if the closer we ride into the storm, the more familiar we become with apathy, which is terribly frightening. I’m acknowledging the limitlessness of Mother Nature. It’s not self-righteous, I am not campaigning, I am merely recognizing our intense vulnerability in this moment.”

LISTEN TO ‘MOTHER NATURES SCORN’ HERE

WATCH ‘MOTHER NATURES SCORN’ HERE

Photo credit: Giovanna Ferin

’The Weightless Hour’ sees Stein join forces once more with long-time collaborator, the producer Ben Hillier (see also: Depeche Mode, Doves, Blur, Elbow). After originally teaming up for 2020’s Snapshot, Stein’s third record, which was built from collected fragments of grief following the loss of her father, it was Hillier’s penchant for minimalism – his instinct for risk-taking while stripping sounds back to their gleaming bones – that aligned with her vision for her fourth project.

In removing most instrumental additions beyond the guitar (and you will notice there are no drums on the LP), with ‘The Weightless Hour’, Stein made a subconscious choice to make the project entirely her own. In the space freed by the stripped-back instrumentation, her storytelling bleeds freely like watercolours across a blank page.

The album is an intensely human document with a profound sense of dignity. A record on which Stein has found that exploring a more restrained side can yield work that is armed with experience and yet is all the lighter for it, where your attention isn’t demanded and yet is effortlessly claimed. Every sound, every choice, has earned its place.

“I think making records is a really powerful way of letting go of experiences,” Stein notes. “I’m allowing myself to kiss things goodbye.” Through these converging chapters of her life, ‘The Weightless Hour’ feels like an arrival for Juanita Stein: “I’ve finally learned to be okay in space and be loud in my experiences.”

Juanita Stein Live Dates 2024:

OCTOBER