Carson McHone has announced her new album, ‘Pentimento’, slated for release on September 12th via Merge Records. It comes hot on the heels of a busy and prolific three years that saw the Austin-native relocate to Canada, tour extensively, and release two EPs.
The album’s title, derived from the Italian for “repentance” and signifying a visible trace of an earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas, perfectly encapsulates the layered and evolving nature of McHone’s new work. Penned in the Texas desert and recorded on the Canadian coast, ‘Pentimento’ sees McHone fearlessly blending diverse influences – from guitar rock to pastoral folk, poetry, and field recordings – into a rich tapestry of sound.
Leading the charge is the album’s first single, “Winter Breaking,” an ethereal introduction that truly embodies the collaborative nature of the project, which she touches on in a statement below. The accompanying video features the art and work of ceramicist Alejandra Almuelle.
McHone shared: “This project continues to be, really, a community effort. What began as a methodical structuring of personal artifacts kept speaking of collaboration, which allowed me to open up the process to others and bring it to life. Making the initial recording brought together a group of six musicians, but the project has expanded to include a web of many artists and disciplines. If my last album, Still Life, represents a static moment, a pause before a pivot, Pentimentois the natural next step. It’s full of movement—through time and space, through many forms… It’s a project that engages with shadow, with impulse, with paradox, and with play. I hope the record illustrates the process of integrating these things, of acknowledging the complexity of being/becoming. I am so happy to start releasing this out into the world now. So, we begin at the top, with the very opening of the album: ‘Winter Breaking’.”
Pentimento was written in the Texas desert and recorded on the Canadian coast with collaborators Colleen Coco Collins, Michael Cloud Duguay, Raha Javanfar, Steven Lambke, and Daniel Romano.
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McHone will embark on a summer tour of Europe with Daniel Romano in July. US and Canadian tour dates are in the offing—including a listening party and multi-disciplinary performance of Pentimento for In the Soil Arts Festival: Harvesting the Soil in St. Catharines, ON, on September 12, the night of the album release, and a month-long Texas residency in October.