Brandi Carlile announces solo album Returning to Myself
Brandi Carlile will release her first solo album in four years, Returning to Myself, on October 24.
Brandi Carlile has announced her first solo album in four years.
The 44-year-old singer-songwriter has confirmed that her new record Returning to Myself will be released on October 24.
In a statement, Carlile said: "I'm not my favourite person to spend my time with.
"Returning to myself is not just a lonely, but a painfully boring thing to do. So much so that I'm actually not at all interested in doing it."
Brandi created Returning to Myself with Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon while her bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth, SistaStrings, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham and Stewart Cole have all made contributions to the album.
The title track, with a music video directed by Floria Sigismondi, is out now.
Carlile – who collaborated with Sir Elton John on the album Who Believes in Angels? earlier this year – explained how the album taught her what it means to be alone.
The 11-time Grammy Award-winner said: "For me the key to learning to 'be alone' is not being alone at all. It's hearing an unexpected doorbell ring and wondering who has shown up to watch me read my book and bite my nails all day.
"That a guest can be a deep leaning in over a cheap bottle of wine or simply an eyebrow raise and a gesture toward the refrigerator while I play Zelda... where I totally choose myself with someone so close to me so I can hear them relax."
Brandi continued: "Togetherness has given me everything I love about being alive. Starting with my original family in a single wide mobile home, gathered around a wood stove all the way to living with my band, haunting my wife everywhere she goes, raising my children on a tour bus, learning at the feet of Joni Mitchell, to making music with my greatest hero of all time, Elton John.
"Why is it heroic to untether, when the tense work of togetherness is so much more interesting?... Because I don't want to do it. Because I don't want to return to myself. And that's why I will."
Returning to Myself Track List:
1. Returning to Myself
2. Human
3. A Woman Oversees
4. A War With Time
5. Anniversary
6. Church and State
7. Joni
8. You Without Me
9. No One Knows Us
10. A Long Goodbye
