New York, NY (Top40 Charts) the Brooklyn-based artist Elijah Wolf released a new single "
Fading" from his forthcoming album Forgiving Season that arrives on June 23 via Mtn Laurel Recording Co. The song was co-written with Wolf's longtime creative partners Sam Cohen, who produced the album, and drummer Joshua Jeager (Angel Olsen). Forgiving Season is now available for pre-order on Bandcamp, Rough Trade US and Rough Trade UK.
"I wrote Fading about the experience of meeting someone special while fighting the impulse to self-sabotage. The song deals with the tangled emotions of excitement, fear, and the euphoria of total surrender. I wrote it after meeting someone who made me feel present and in sync. As good as it felt, I couldn't help but feel the anxiety of allowing someone in. To me this song is about the process I went through to reach acceptance and an openness to new experiences and the happiness it brought me," Wolf explains.
"While recording, I was incredibly inspired by the changing season outside the studio, where I would watch the trees grow greener by the day. The outro is particularly inspired by the sounds of the earth coming back to life—crickets at night, wind through the trees, the hum of frogs, the thawing of the ground all into a spring dance."
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Fading" follows the release of the official video for "We Talked About It" and "Care Anymore," which was created by Wolf's childhood friend Dylan Kaplowitz and Evan Shornstein with footage of New York City from early 2020. "Care Anymore" was praised by Under The Radar who said, "Wolf has managed to both wrangle the disaffected swirl of emotions he was dealing with when writing the record and crystalize those feelings into vibrant indie rock," while NYLON proclaimed "'Care Anymore' captures the feelings in between the big ones - zeroing in on the freedom that comes from throwing up your hands in surrender."
Following the emotional high of his 2021 full length album Brighter Lighting (which featured Wilco's Nels Cline on guitar) and a run of prestigious tour dates and performances at Newport Folk Festival, Austin City Limits and The End of the Road in England, Wolf returned to New York directionless and filled with self-doubt, unable to write or record. After many months, he finally called producer Sam Cohen who encouraged him to come to his studio and throw out anything he had written and demoed and start from scratch.
"At Sam's direction, we made a decision to take a leap and not recreate anything I had done already. We wanted to get away from the folk-rock band sound of traditional instruments in a room together," Wolf explains. "In the end, I wrote a record about vulnerability, about the ways that mechanisms of self-protection can make you miss the good around you. It's about allowing the walls to come down and accepting your own failures and imperfections
The result is a vulnerable 10-song collection that is a testament to collaboration and experimentation. Forgiving Season features the previously released song "Holding This In" that Atwood Magazine called "An instantly memorable song with an easy hook, an energetic guitar line, and powerful vocals… A song full of vulnerability, heart, and raw, beautifully unresolved emotions."
Forgiving Season follows Wolf's 2021 full length Brighter Lighting, his standalone single "Yesterday, With You" which featured Fleet Foxes'
Robin Pecknold on vocals, and an Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Sessions release.
Tour Dates:
6/6 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right
7/18 - Brooklyn, NY - TV Eye *Album Release Show*
8/18 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon
9/15 - Windham Mountain, NY - Cave Mountain Catskills
Music Festival
Forgiving Season tracklist:
1) Intro (A New Season)
2) Forgiving Season
3) You Come Through
4) We Talked About It
5) Care Anymore
6) Holding This In
7) Sun Batter
8) Blue
9) Empty Island
10) Fading
