Red Lips & Starry Eyes

Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.

About a year and half ago I wrote a song about an incredible story, the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in. Figuratively and literally. The juxtaposition of her loneliness and independence. Her longing and her stillness. Her curiosity and fear, all tangled up. Her persisting gentleness… and the world’s betrayal of it. I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then Aaron Dessner and I meticulously worked on a sound that we felt would be authentic to the moment in time when this story takes place. I made a wish that one day you would hear it. ‘Carolina’ is out now 🥺

I’m elated to tell you that my 9th studio album, and folklore’s sister record, will be out tonight at midnight eastern. It’s called evermore. To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in. I’ve never done this before. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released. There was something different with folklore. In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales. I loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives. So I just kept writing them. And I loved creating these songs with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, WB, and Justin Vernon. We’ve also welcomed some new (and longtime) friends to our musical kitchen table this time around…

aries: i think he knows, the man, false god

taurus: cornelia street, lover, paper rings

gemini: the archer, death by a thousand cuts, cruel summer

cancer: death by a thousand cuts, afterglow, soon you’ll get better

leo: cruel summer, i forgot that you existed, you need to calm down

virgo: the man, it’s nice to have a friend, the archer

libra: afterglow, the man, ME!

scorpio: i forgot that you existed, i think he knows, cruel summer

sagittarius: london boy, miss americana & the heartbreak prince, i forgot that you existed

capricorn: daylight, the man, cornelia street

aquarius: miss americana & the heartbreak prince, it’s nice to have a friend, paper rings