Oregon-based artist Heather Woods Broderick will release her new album, Invitation, on April 19 via Western Vinyl. The cinematic first single from the record ‘Where I Lay’ is streaming online now.

Laden with beautiful baroque-pop, ‘Where I Lay’ is a powerful anthem whose immense drums and persistent piano are sincerely pained, delivering a strong centrepiece for the upcoming album.

Speaking about the new track, Heather said “'Where I Lay’ is really a poem about the impermanence of all things. So many of our questions will remain unanswered but if we slow down and appreciate things as they are it can provide a simplicity and an ease that inspires wonder amidst the chaos.”

The title of her third album takes its name from a quote by Thomas Moore which she stumbled upon while sifting through the cathartic journal entries of her mother:

“To keep the unfolding self alive,

you have to open yourself to change every step of the way. Of course there are times

when it is appropriate to step back, settle down, and maybe not move for a while.

But to be a person means to be faced every minute

with the decision to live OR die; To accept the invitations for yet more vitality or to

decline them out of fear or lethargy.”

'Invitation' track list:

1. A Stilling Wind

2. I Try

3. Nightcrawler

4. Where I Lay

5. Slow Dazzle

6. A Daydream

7. White Tail

8. Quicksand

9. My Sunny One

10. These Green Valleys

11. Invitation

Following the recent news that they will be headlining London’s Test Pressing Festival on April 27, Moon Duo have announced that they will be taking part in Samarbeta’s fourteenth artist residency, collaborating with Manchester-based visual projection artist Emmanuel Biard, whose work has become an integral part of the Moon Duo live show over recent years.

The project entitled Stardust Highway: Experiments in Stoner Disco, will use live music and video art to explore ideas about time, ritual, and the human desire to transcend material reality. Moon Duo will explore the conceptual commonalities between performance and ritual, with a focus on sonic repetition and the merging of particular human energies in the physical space shared by artist and audience. The live show will cultivate an experience that feels, in a sense, out of time, as it play with idioms of psych rock and dance music in a perception-shifting visual environment inspired by ‘70s discotheques and the psychedelic experience.

Moon Duo commented: “When we make a album we tend to approach the process with a specific conceptual underpinning in mind - the residency offers the chance to apply this approach to our live show as well. While we have always sought to have some kind of transformative visual component to our live performances, to change the space of the room we’re in, we have not in the past attempted to tie the components of the stage show to a specific album or concept. When we started working with Emmanuel he brought new depth and breadth to that aspect of our show; through the residency we’re hoping to deepen that artistic relationship by collaborating on a specific conceptual framework for a live show to reflect and interact with the ideas at work on our upcoming album.”

In 2017, Moon Duo released their most recent LP, the two-part psychedelic opus Occult Architecture via Sacred Bones; an intricately woven hymn to the invisible structures found in the cycle of seasons and the journey of day into night, dark into light. This album saw them tour extensively, including their largest London gig to date – a sold out show at Heaven. Moon Duo will return to the fold with new recordings later in 2019.

The project will take place from April 15 – 26 at Regents Trading Estate in Salford with a debut performance in the warehouse on Friday 26th April. Tickets are £15 and are on sale now. More info at http://www.samarbeta.co.uk/

Moon Duo live dates:

April 9-13 – Tremor Festival, The Azores

April 15-26 - Regents Trading Estate, SALFORD (Stardust Highway: Experiments in Stoner Disco)

April 27 - Test Pressing Festival, LONDON