h. pruz is returning to announce the follow up to their well-received debut, an album called Red sky at morning (out November 7 on Mtn. Laurel), that expands their insular debut outward to encompass new collaborators, and more ambitious arrangements, while applying a wider lens to their incisive songwriting.
To mark the announce, h. pruz is sharing the single ‘Arrival,’ alongside a video created by V. Haddid and Florist’s Emily Sprague, who also plays Buchla on the track.
If No Glory represented a sinking into a new love with a wide-eyed and vulnerable abandon, Red sky at morning reckons with the calm after the torrent, the future it may represent, and the past it may unearth. The title is lifted from a 2000+ year old proverb that finds itself cited in the New Testament:
Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Traditionally used by mariners, Pruzinsky gives contemporary meaning to trudging forward into an unknown horizon at all costs. “I am drawn to the fact that so many people put their thoughts and beliefs into the sky, the mere color of it. That we can see things somewhere else, perhaps above, far beyond, that are to come to pass. To see a red sky above themselves, an outright warning of potential peril and collapse, and to still choose to go forward into something. If you know something is going to be uncovered or difficult or treacherous, how do you proceed with that warning sign?”
This treacherous uncovering comes to light within the album as though unearthing a pristine collection of snow globes, each track polishing them free of their obfuscation. Co-producer Felix Walworth’s time spent in seminal, cosmic indie bands like Florist and Told Slant shines through in the skittering Wurlitzer and electronics, floating errantly and quietly throughout the explorative folk framework of Pruzinsky’s storytelling. ‘Arrival’ is a slowly unraveling negotiation between dependency and control, a frozen and fraught moment of domesticity as morphine. “Promises start in the house / Board up the doors, paradise is found / There is no point where we give out / Sure of arriving, sure to stay awhile.”
h. pruz says of the track: “I love exploring what it’s like to step over the edge of rationality, the expected, especially when it comes to the relationship with my own self. What happens when the obsessive vein overflows? What if it was meant to? I was experiencing a point of my life that was almost stagnant with domesticity, and it drove me a bit wild internally.”
Red sky at morning:
- Come
- Arrival
- After always
- Siren song
- Your hands
- Leaving a wound without a mark
- If you cannot make it stop
- Force
- Krista
- Whatever comes through
- Sailor’s warning
