Josienne Clarke has announced her new album Parenthesis, I will be released on May 10 via Corduroy Punk Records. The Scotland-based critically acclaimed artist also shared the album’s lead single ‘Most Of All’, a confessional arpeggiated folk ballad that condenses her life story into five verses.
“It is a licking of wounds and counting of blessings, taking stock and setting straight in my head,” she says. “It’s one of those songs where I’m a bit exposed and I almost can’t bring myself to share it. Several times I nearly took it off the tracklist, but experience has taught me, those ones end up being among my audience’s favorite songs.” The version that did make it onto the LP is the original demo she recorded: just her voice and guitar, lo-fi and honest.
The track is out now alongside an Alec Bowman_Clarke-directed video that’s equal parts candid and cinematic. “Inspired by Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and tour diaries where you see a bit of each show, I wanted to explore what happens when Josienne isn’t on-stage–behind the scenes of a life and career, dancing tenderly together like an elderly couple at a salsa class who have grown sick of the sight of each other but will remain together until they die,” explains Bowman_Clarke.
Parenthesis, I:
- Friendly Teeth
- Spherical
- Fear Of Falling
- Do You Know Now
- Looking Glass
- Forbearing
- Most Of All
- Double-Edged Sword
- Firecracker
- Dead Woman’s Bones
- The Calm
- Parenthesis, I
- Magic Somehow
