Josaleigh Pollett premieres Bed of Quiet today, ahead of its release tomorrow, July 14th. It’s the final single before their fourth album, If I Let It Quiet (read our review here), out July 24th via Audio Antihero (Frog / Tiberius / Avery Friedman / CIAO MALZ / Darren Hayman) and Lavender Vinyl on digital and vinyl.
The Salt Lake City songwriter has been self-releasing music for over fifteen years, but the run of records made with producer and co-writer Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy) has drawn the widest attention. 2023’s In the Garden, By the Weeds reached a broader audience when NPR Music’s Bob Boilen featured it on All Songs Considered, and Pollett went on to share bills with St. Vincent, Torres, Deep Sea Diver, DeVotchKa, Mini Trees and Hibou, and to play Kilby Block Party.
The album grew out of a stretch of separation. After In the Garden, By the Weeds, Watko relocated to Japan, and If I Let It Quiet was written remotely — across eight thousand miles — between 2024 and 2025. While apart, Pollett kept working, collaborating with Ekko Astral, phoneswithchords and Icarus Phoenix, and writing a song a day through January 2025 (released as bro’s bad january). Andrew Goldring, whose credits take in releases for Atlantic, Rough Trade and Run For Cover, joined after playing with the band at that same festival, closing the gap between oceans and freeing Watko to concentrate on production rather than also handling engineering and mixing.
Bed of Quiet pairs guitar crunch and percussive grooves with Watko’s ambient production and a run of samples from Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie), drawn from unused instrumental recordings Walla had kept since the early 2010s. It follows the single Radio Player, along with The Witness and Like a River.
“Bed of Quiet is an over-thinker’s anthem. A song for the sleepless, and the hours spent playing and replaying scenarios on a loop in your brain where there is no right decision, digging for a yes or a no in a mountain of perhaps. We wanted the production to feel like it belonged in the middle of the night, when you’re not quite yet dreaming, but suspended above your body like a projected film of the last few week’s events you can’t stop watching, playing too loud for sleeping. When Chris Walla sent us some instrumental recordings from the early 2010’s he’d yet to use, they fit perfectly into the fitful, crumpled sheets of the bed we were making. The post-chorus vocal ‘a little doubt-‘ is also the only time Jordan sings on the record, pitch-shifted all to heaven, of course,” Pollett explains. Listen below:
If I Let It Quiet arrives on July 24th, with Pollett and Watko reuniting for a tour across the Western United States through July and August.
Tour Dates
July 25th – First Baptist Church, Salt Lake City, UT (Launch Show) – Tickets
July 28th – Shrine Social Club, Boise, ID
July 29th – Koneksi Gallery, Whidbey Island, WA
July 30th – Conor Byrne Pub, Seattle, WA
July 31st – Turn! Turn! Turn!, Portland, OR
August 2nd – Porch Fest, Eugene, OR
August 3rd – Naked Lounge, Chico, CA
August 4th – Heavy Lemon, San Jose, CA
August 5th – El Cid (new venue), Los Angeles, CA
August 6th – Dustland, Las Vegas, NV
August 7th – Amusement Co Records, St. George, UT
August 14th – D3 Arts, Denver, CO
Pre-Order: https://josaleighpollett.bandcamp.com/album/if-i-let-it-quiet