Bonnie “Prince” Billy – the persona/stage-name of musician Will Oldham - released a new studio record titled We Are Together Again on via Domino/No Quarter.

The follow-up to The Purple Bird, Oldham began working on this set before his Nashville-sojourn to record that album, and picked them up again last spring, taking these 10 songs into End of an Ear Studios in Louisville with his current tour mates Jacob Duncan (flute and saxophone) and Thomas Deakin (clarinet, whistle, baritone electric guitar, accordion, cornet), along with Ryder McNair, Chris Bush, Ned Oldham and Erin Hill.

Oldham notes: “This record was made closer to the Ohio River than any I’ve been involved with since 1993’s Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You. Louisville’s current-and-past vital musical community is highlighted on every song. Catherine Irwin, who sang on the BPB release Ease Down the Road, is back here on “Hey Little” and “Vietnam Sunshine”. Lacey Guthrie, Tory Fisher and Katie Peabody, the three front women of the band Duchess, sing together on the opening and closing songs, parallel odes to the beast that is fear.“

However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. We Are Together Again feels like an answer. In Oldham’s songs - and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy - friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn’t a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, but a kind of defiance: remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon.*

Jim Marlowe engineered the album sessions and co-produced it with Oldham. The first track to be shared from the record is “They Keep Trying To Find You” alongside a video produced by Jake Forman and choreographed and directed by Abi Elliott.

Watch the video for “They Keep Trying To Find You” here.

We Are Together Again doesn’t resolve fear; it meets it with harmony. It’s a record about the stubborn miracle of community, and about how, so long as there are voices asking together, the asking itself becomes hope.*

Stream ‘we are together again’ here