Itasca has shared “Lily,” the opening track to her forthcoming album Spring, today, alongside a music video shot on Super 8. In an essay for The Talkhouse, Cohen writes about the song’s origins, inspired by the ghostly hallucinations of a water lily she experienced on the long drive from LA to New Mexico, where she composed the songs on Spring. The video depicts a dance of domesticity between mythological figures Ceres (played by Cohen), Pan, and Bes.
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Ahead of the release of Abundance Welcoming Ghosts on September 27, hear the album’s third and final single “Red River,” which narrates the history of the language—a creole of Cree, Scots, Gaelic, and Ojibwa spoken in Manitoba—from which the band take their name, and the colonial dynamic replicated in the process: the “narrowing Throat of the World.” Uncut writes the band’s “most sunny and easygoing record to date… exudes enlightenment.”
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Featuring Tara Jane O’Neil on slide guitar and premiered by Raven Sings the Blues (with apt comparisons to John Martyn and Fairport Convention), “My Friend” follows first single “Snowdon” (with Joan Shelley) and a solo performance video of album opener “Blue Sparks.” Abundance Welcoming Ghosts is out Sept. 27th.
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