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Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore—two of contemporary music’s most celebrated composers—announce their new album, Tragic Magic, out January 16th via InFiné and release the new single, “Melted Moon.” In conjunction, the duo announce a 2026 North American, UK, and EU tour. Tragic Magic features seven immersive, evocative songs guided by the human spirit. Together in freeform dialogue, voice and instrument, Barwick and Lattimore render a meditation on tragedy, wonder, and the restorative power of shared experience.
Co-produced by Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Tragic Magic came together in just nine days, a testament to the “musical telepathy,” as Barwick puts it, that has developed between the two artists over the years traveling the world as friends and tourmates. Sessions crossed improvisation with loose ideas they arrived in Paris with from Los Angeles, shortly after the January 2025 wildfires while still reeling for their community.
Barwick and Lattimore were given access to the extraordinary instrument collection of the Philharmonie de Paris’ Musée de la Musique in partnership with InFiné. The two artists embraced a divine setting, overwhelmed by the beauty and history at their fingertips. Lattimore selected three harps tracing the evolution of the instrument from 1728 to 1873, and Barwick chose several analog synthesizers that have shaped decades of exploratory music, including the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5, among other treasures.
“We were so lucky to have access to this experience. There was a lot of reverence, working with people with such warmth and enthusiasm, bringing these instruments into a modern context, literally taken off the shelves of the museum,” says Lattimore. “We wanted to honor the past while making music that we feel is a true expression of ourselves,” Barwick adds.
Following lead single and album opener, “Perpetual Adoration,” new single “Melted Moon” was written in direct response to the Los Angeles wildfires. Barwick recalls packing up her life under the dark ash clouds, “What do I need for these trips, but also, what do we need if we can’t come back to this house?” Lattimore lends a harp refrain that loops and echoes in the eventide, a measure in which she plays above as Barwick, uncharacteristically free of effects, offers her lyrics in poignant clarity, both haunting and hopeful: “Under the melted moon / The lights are all out / A strange taste in my mouth / You may never go home again / At least not the home you know.”
Today’s release of “Melted Moon” is accompanied by a video of Barwick and Lattimore performing the song live. Directed and edited by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild, the performance was filmed at Lou Lou’s Jungle Room at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego this past April.
Listen to “Melted Moon” | Watch Live Performance of “Melted Moon”
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore Live Dates
(New Dates in Bold and on sale Friday October 17)
Fri. Oct. 17 – Tulsa, OK @ LIT: A Concert by Candlelight
Fri. Nov. 7 – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who?
Mon. Nov. 10 – Istanbul, TR @ Salon iSKV
Sat. Feb. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Sid The Cat Auditorium
Sun. Feb. 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
Tue. Feb. 17 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
Wed. Feb. 18 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Thu. March 12 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sat. March 14 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
Sun. March 15 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark
Tue. March 17 – Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
Wed. March 18 – Montreal, QC @ Gesu
Fri. March 20 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Tue. March 24 – Washington, DC @ Miracle Theater
Wed. March 25 – Raleigh, NY @ Rialto Theatre
Thu. March 26 – Sun. March 29 – Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
Fr. April 10 – Paris, FR @ Philharmonie de Paris (Musée de la Musique)
Sat. April 11 – London, UK @ EartH Theatre
Sun. April 12 – Copenhagen, DK @ DR Koncerthuset, Studie 2
Mon. April 13 – Stockholm, SE @ Fasching
Tue. April 14 – Helsinki, FI @ G Live Lab
Thu. April 16 – Oslo, NO @ HIMMEL
Fri. April 17 – Brussels, BE @ Église Notre Dame de Laeken
Sat. April 18 – Amsterdam, NL @ BIMHUIS (on sale November)
Sun. April 19 – Berlin, DE @ Silent Green-Kuppelhalle
Tue. April 21 – Düdingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
