Hemlock Ernst (Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring) announces new album / Shares new single
New single, ‘Raised In the South’ is out today. His upcoming LP, Studying Absence is out October 16th via Tygr Rawwk Rcrds.
Today, Hemlock Ernst and Icky Reels share the new single ‘Raised In the South’ which you can check out via YouTube.
Of the album’s wide-ranging inspirations, Herring says:
“Studying Absence is about my lost histories, my Southern South Pacific ancestry, my first relationships, physical abuse, drug addiction, and the ghosts of the south — the roadkill on a long winter night. I was all these things but not one of them. The stories I don’t know, I can only imagine, but the same can be said for the stories that I know too well. The stories that I lived and made me who I am are now so far away that remembering them is like a dream. Did it happen? But I feel now like I felt then, like I’ve always felt looking into a mirror. This is potential and what was lost. This is technology and how it failed. This is imperialism and who it gained. A religion, an organized crime. All the people scattered.”
‘Raised In the South’ is available on your favorite DSP now. His upcoming LP, Studying Absence is out October 16th via Tygr Rawwk Rcrds.
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