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Today, renowned folk artist Jenny Owen Youngs releases tranquil second single “dusk (feat. John Mark Nelson & Tancred),” off transportive, ambient album from the forest floor via OFFAIR Records, out May 5th, intended to be listened to while hiking amongst woodland greenery, or imagining oneself doing so.
“dusk (feat. John Mark Nelson & Tancred),” comes off the back of glowing lead single “sunrise mtn,” with praise from Stereogum, Cool Hunting, Our Culture, and more.
Youngs says of the track, “Dusk is transitional, a liminal period that carries us over the threshold from light into darkness. This song began in collaboration with Jess Abbott, who makes alternative music by turns crunchy and delicate, under the name Tancred. We sat in our home studio lit by just candles and a low-watt Edison bulb, Jess with a guitalele and me with a baritone guitar. I love these two instruments in combination because they somehow, despite having so much in common (they’re both fretted, six-stringed instruments, both tuned with the same relative intervals between strings), together sound like two opposite ends of a spectrum, the baritone strange in its low rumbling, the guitalele nimble and light as it’s plucked. This is a song for the hour when the sun sinks below the treeline, a song for the incredible blue glow of a sky falling dark.”
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The 12-track album cycles through a 24-hour period, beginning at 7am. Each piece is designed to reflect aspects of the time it’s representing, from sunrise to dusk, moonset to blue hour. The earthy, hypnotic project features collaborators Hrishikesh Hirway (host of Song Exploder), John Mark Nelson (Taylor Swift, Suki Waterhouse, Devon Cole’s ‘W.I.T.C.H.’), and Tancred.
