Watchhouse, the new name in American roots music formed by Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz (formerly known as the acclaimed Mandolin Orange) has released a new song titled “Beautiful Flowers.” The single is a meditation on the death of a butterfly against the windshield of a speeding automobile and will appear on Watchhouse’s debut album in August 2021.
For their new album, Andrew Marlin, Emily Frantz and their bandmates spent time in a rural Appalachian cabin and worked with musician and producer Josh Kaufman. The resulting new album transformed bluegrass sounds into spectral drones and reconfigured their Appalachian poetry with shades of American primitivism and ambient electronics. the album features lyrics that tackle climate change, the impersonality of the internet, new parenthood, and the magical realism of the mundane.
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