Meg Baird’s songs are rarely made up of tidy stories. In fact, for Meg, mystery itself is often the medium. With Furling, Meg’s fourth album under her own name, she explores the breadth of her musical fascinations and the environments around them—the edges of memory, daydreams spanning years, loose ends, loss, divergent paths, and secret conversations under stars. Furling moves through these varied spaces with the slippery, misty cohesiveness of a dream—guided by an ageless, stirring voice that remains singular and unmistakable.

Yet Furling is the album that most irreverently explores the span of her work and musical touchstones. For all its adornments, Furling remains deeply intimate. The entire album was performed by Meg and her longtime collaborator, partner, and Heron Oblivion bandmate Charlie Saufley. While her prior solo work hinted at more expansive horizons, Furling explores the idea of Meg Baird as a band much more freely. Venturing beyond the musical confines of fingerstyle guitar, she plays drums, mellotron, organs, synths, and vibraphone over her piano and guitar foundations. Her distinctive, simultaneously elegiac and uplifting vocals, meanwhile, graft sunshine sonics to swooning meditations on romantic solidarity in trying times, and weave odes to the simple gestures of friendship—and the loss of family and friends.

On the lead single "Will You Follow Me Home?", Meg Baird soars above a hazy, clockwork tangle of guitars and percussion— reaching for the sky, overhead the propulsive groove and summoning playful and soulful electricity.

The accompanying music video, elegantly directed by Rachael Cassells, is a hypnagogic portrait of an atmospheric summer evening. Illusory and striking, it captures the light and shadow of days long past and contemplates the hope that they may illuminate our future.

Furling was primarily recorded at Louder Studios by Tim Green. Additional piano and vocal recording were captured at Panoramic Studios in Stinson Beach, CA with Jason Quever and it was mastered in Brooklyn by Heba Kadry. Pre-order your copy of Furling before its release on January 27th, 2023.

TOUR DATES:

 

10/26/22   Cafe Nine   New Haven   CT*     
10/27/22   Union Pool   Brooklyn   NY*     
10/28/22   Tubby's   Kingston   NY*     
10/29/22   Johnny Brenda's   Philadelphia   PA*   
11/1/22   Third Man Records Cass Corridor   Detroit   MI*     
11/2/22   The Cactus Club   Milwaukee   WI*     
11/3/22   Turf Club   St. Paul   MN*   
11/4/22   The Hideout   Chicago   IL*     
12/3/22   The Miniplex   Arcata   CA^   

*w/ Chris Forsyth

^w/ Helen